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Antígona Segura


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I was a dispersed girl that loved the stars and was amazed with all living beings, as a result I became an astrobiologist.

Astrobiology is an emergent science that has a very simple objective: to understand all the processes in the Universe that are related to the origin and evolution of life.

In particular, I am working on the characterization of terrestrial habitable planets around other stars. This project is relevant for the mission Terrestrial Planet Finder that will detect Earth-size planets around other stars.

I started this research as a postdoc with  Dr. James Kasting from the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center.

After that I was a postdoc in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology (JPL/Caltech) where I worked at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL) lead by Dr. Victoria Meadows. This project is a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Now I am working as a researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Contact information

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares
Circuito Exterior C.U. A.Postal 70-543 04510 México D.F.

Phone: 52-(55) 5622 4660 ext. 2269

52-(55) 5622 4672

52-(55) 5622 4673

antigona@nucleares.unam.mx