Zachory Berta-Thompson

Zach Berta-Thompson is the Torres Fellow for Exoplanetary Research at MIT. He works on trying to understand the composition, evolution, and origins of planets that are intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune, with the long term of goal of addressing the question "Does life exist elsewhere in the Galaxy?" Zach recently graduated with a PhD in Astronomy from Harvard University; he first grew interested in astronomy as an undergrad at Princeton University. He we born and raised in Rockford, Michigan.