10 Facts About Megan Schwamb

Megan E Schwamb was born on 1984 and is an American astronomer and planetary scientist, and lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast.

Megan Schwamb went on to study astrophysics in the California Institute of Technology, graduated Master of Science in 2008.

Megan Schwamb's thesis was researching "Beyond Sedna: Probing the Distant Solar System", and her advisor was Michael Brown.

Between 2010 and 2013, Megan Schwamb was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University.

Megan Schwamb worked at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academia Sinica in Taipei in Republic of China from 2013 until 2016.

Megan Schwamb then held the post of assistant scientist at the Gemini Observatory, before moving to Queen's University, Belfast.

Megan Schwamb is the creator and co-founder of Astrotweeps, a Rotation Curation account on astronomy.

Megan Schwamb is a founding science team member for Planet Four, a project intended for mapping seasonal fans on the South Pole of Mars.

Megan Schwamb is part of the science team leading Planet Hunters, a project in which users analyze data from the NASA Kepler Space Mission while searching for exoplanets.

Megan Schwamb specialized in studying sednoids, and co-discovered several trans-Neptunian objects.