Invited Speakers

Héctor Arce (Yale University)

Héctor Arce is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at Yale University. His main areas of research are star formation, molecular outflows from young stellar objects, molecular clouds and cores, and the physical and chemical processes in the interstellar medium. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico.

Jaehan Bae (University of Florida)

Jaehan Bae is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Florida. His research focuses on advancing our understanding of planet formation processes through finding actively forming, young exoplanets. He develops theoretical and computational models to predict observable signatures of planet formation and uses these predictions to search for forming exoplanets with cutting-edge telescopes such as ALMA and JWST. He was born and raised in South Korea.

Megan Reiter (Rice University)

Dr Megan Reiter is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. Her research focuses on how feedback, especially radiation feedback, from the larger star-forming environment shapes planet formation. Since moving to Rice University, she's been having a great time trying to get all the photons from all the telescopes and eating immoderate amounts of tortilla chips.

Michael R. Meyer (University of Michigan)

Michael R. Meyer (PhD, 1996, U. Massachusetts) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at the U. Michigan. He was Chair of Star and Planet Formation at the ETH in Zürich (2009-2016) and was formerly a Professor/Astronomer at the Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory at U. Arizona (2000-2009). He has worked in galactic and infrared astronomy, as well as the formation, evolution, and characterisation of planetary systems (and associated implications on the prospects for life in the Universe) as well as developing ground- and space-based instrumentation, including JWST and next generation extremely large telescopes.

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