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Richard Teague joined the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2022. He earned his master’s degree in astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh in 2013 and completed his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in 2017. Following his PhD, Teague pursued postdoctoral studies at Max-Planck before moving to the University of Michigan as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017. In 2019, he joined the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a Submillimeter Array Fellow before arriving at MIT in 2022. He also retains a research associate appointment at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, required until 2025. Teague specializes in submillimeter wavelength telescope observations to understand the formation of planetary systems. His research focuses on the chemical makeup and physical processes that bring material together in protoplanetary disks, the birthplaces of planets, using advanced telescopes to observe these regions in space. He is currently leading the exoALMA collaboration, a significant campaign utilizing the Atacama Large (sub)Millimeter Array (ALMA) to detect the youngest exoplanets with unprecedented spatial resolution.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences focusing on planetary formation and submillimeter observations.