Josh Winn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor
Physics
Cambridge, Massachusetts
jwinn@mit.edu
Office:
(617) 258-5928
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Josh Winn is from Deerfield, Illinois. He graduated from MIT in 1994 with S.B. and S.M. degrees in physics. After spending a year as a Fulbright Scholar in the UK, at Cambridge University, he returned to MIT as a Hertz Fellow. While in graduate school, he wrote for the science section of The Econ...
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Bio/Research
Josh Winn is from Deerfield, Illinois. He graduated from MIT in 1994 with S.B. and S.M. degrees in physics. After spending a year as a Fulbright Scholar in the UK, at Cambridge University, he returned to MIT as a Hertz Fellow. While in graduate school, he wrote for the science section of The Economist. He earned a Ph.D. in physics in 2001, and subsequently held NSF and NASA postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He joined the MIT faculty in January 2006.
Prof. Winn's research goals are to explore the properties of planets around other stars ("exoplanets"), to understand how planets form and evolve, and to make progress on the age-old question of whether there are other planets capable of supporting life. He is a Participating Scientist in the NASA Kepler mission, and Deputy Science Director of a proposed successor mission called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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Prof. Winn's research goals are to explore the properties of planets around other stars ("exoplanets"), to understand how planets form and evolve, and to make progress on the age-old question of whether there are other planets capable of supporting life. He is a Participating Scientist in the NASA Kepler mission, and Deputy Science Director of a proposed successor mission called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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