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Aki Roberge
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory
Code 667
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Phone: (301) 286-2967
Fax: (301) 286-1753
Aki.Roberge at nasa.gov

Brief on-line curriculum vitae
Complete CV and publication list (PDF file)

My research focuses on observations of planet-forming disks around nearby young stars. Click here to read my biography on NASA's "Imagine the Universe" educational website.

I co-organize the Goddard Exoplanets Seminar.

I'm currently involved with two Open Time Key Projects for the Herschel Space Observatory. Herschel is an upcoming infrared to sub-mm space telescope, scheduled to be launched by the European Space Agency in early 2009. The two projects are ...

GASPS - "Gas in Protoplanetary Systems"

DUNES - "Dust Around Nearby Stars"

Herschel poster

	I'm also involved with planning for future space telescopes aimed at studies of 1) star and planet formation and 2) extrasolar planets. Both of these missions were recently granted concept studies by NASA. Star Formation Observatory SFO is a UV/optical space telescope designed to study the births of stars and their planetary systems, starting with the nearest star-forming regions in our own galaxy and moving all the way out to the first generation of stars in distant galaxies.	HST image of Orion star-forming region
	New Worlds Observer The goal of NWO is to study planets around neighboring stars, with the primary goal of imaging and characterizing Earth-like planets with liquid water on their surfaces. Such planets would be much like our own and might be hospitable for life (i.e. "habitable").	Artist's conception of an Earth-like planet [Credit: Lynette Cook]