by Janice Dunlap

Former DTM Postdoctoral Fellow Nader Haghighipour has received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers to work on planets in binary systems.

A DTM Fellow from 2001-2004, Nader is now an Associate Astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy, and a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute since its creation in 1998.  Nader will spend 2013 in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg and the University of Tuebingen.

Nader was a member of the international team of scientists led by former DTM Postdoctoral Fellow Guillem Anglada-Escude and Staff Scientist Paul Butler who discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star.  Their work was published by The Astrophysical Journal Letters.