Joel D. Green

Joel Green is the Project Scientist in the Office of Public Outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute — the Home of Hubble and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescopes, working closely with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He uses ground- and space-based telescopes to study the formation of new star and planetary systems, to determine whether our own solar system’s origins are typical in the Galaxy. Previously he was a research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, and graduated with a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Rochester in 2009, a Masters in astrophysics in 2002, and Bachelors in 2000 from Cornell University. He has been the lead investigator on several observational campaigns with the SOFIA (airplane-based) telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, and has been a co-discoverer of approximately a dozen planet-like objects around young stars.