Courtney Dressing
Title
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Department
Dept of Astronomy
Faculty URL
Email
Research Expertise and Interest
exoplanets, stars, habitability, astrobiology
In the News
October 17, 2019
Exoplanet hunter Courtney Dressing awarded 2019 Packard Fellowship
Courtney Dressing’s ongoing search for planets around other stars has won her a prestigious Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. Dressing, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of astronomy, is one of 22 early career scientists and engineers nationwide who will receive $875,000 each over five years to pursue their research. The new fellows were announced this week by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
February 20, 2019
Seven early-career faculty win Sloan Research Fellowships
Seven assistant professors from the fields of astronomy, biology, computer science, economics and statistics have been named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows. They are among 126 scholars from the United States and Canada whose early-career achievements mark them as being among today’s very best scientific minds. Winners receive $70,000 over the course of two years toward a research project.