Lucianne Walkowicz

Actor

BIOGRAPHY

Lucianne Walkowicz is an American astronomer based at the Adler Planetarium noted for her research contributions in stellar magnetic activity and its impact on planetary suitability for extraterrestrial life. Since 2008, she has been the chair of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Transients and Variable Stars collaboration and is the founding director of the LSST Data Science Fellowship program. She is internationally recognized for her advocacy for conservation of dark night skies, and was named a 2011 National Academy of Science Kavli Fellow and a 2012 TED Senior Fellow.She appeared in Warner Herzogs 2016 documentary Lo and Behold.

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