Lisa Kaltenegger is the Director of the Carl Sagan Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos at Cornell and Associate Professor in Astronomy. She is a pioneer in modeling potential habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint. She served on the National Science Foundation's AAAC, and on NASA's senior review of operating missions. Kaltenegger was named one of America's Young Innovators by Smithsonian Magazine, an Innovator to Watch by TIME Magazine.
