Dr. Kevin Heng

Biography

Kevin Heng is a tenured professor at the University of Bern, where he serves as the director of the Center for Space Habitability (CSH). His research interests encompass the theoretical and phenomenological aspects of atmospheres and exoplanets, including radiative transfer, atmospheric chemistry, and fluid dynamics, specifically general circulation models. He is the author of the textbook 'Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Theoretical Concepts & Foundations,' published by Princeton University Press in 2017, which earned him the 2018 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Heng is also the recipient of the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant from 2018 to 2023 and co-founded the Exoplanets conference series alongside Professor Didier Queloz. In 2022, he assumed the inaugural chair professor position in exoplanet science at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich. Heng is dedicated to academic collaboration and enjoys mentoring students and postdoctoral researchers. His expertise includes Bayesian inference and machine learning as applied to exoplanet studies.

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