Rebecca Oppenheimer investigates planets orbiting stars other than the Sun.
12 Facts About Rebecca Oppenheimer
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Rebecca Oppenheimer holds an adjunct professorship at Columbia University's Department of Astronomy and has published over two hundred and sixty research and public-oriented science articles, with an h-index over 55 and more than 10,000 citations.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer holds three patents, is the co-discoverer of the first brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, and is active in research on exoplanets.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer has served on numerous NASA advisory committees including the TPF Science and Technology Definition Team, The NASA Astrophysics Senior review for 2014,2016, and 2019, as well as various NSF and NRC committees.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer has been a member of NASA's Exoplanet Technology Assessment Committee since 2015.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer is an active member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer is a member of the A, B, C, D, F, and G affiliations within the IAU.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer co-curated the space show Journey to the Stars and curated the exhibit Searching for New Worlds.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer's video, "The Known Universe," created as part of an exhibit with the Rubin Museum, is an early example of a science video going viral on YouTube in 2009.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer grew up in the Upper West Side in Manhattan, NY.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer is a trans woman and an activist for the rights of LGBT people.
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Rebecca Oppenheimer came out in 2014 and was featured in a New York Times piece where she wrote about being transgender and a scientist.