Mary Anne Limbach

Mary Anne Limbach is an observational astronomer who studies the planetary systems around other stars. Her research group is focused on detection of exomoons and exosatellites and direct detection and characterization of cold exoplanets. Her ultimate objective is to gain insights into the prevalence, diversity, evolution, and potential habitability of these these extrasolar worlds. In pursuit of her research goals, she predominantly leverages space-based observatories, previously Spitzer, currently JWST and eventually the Roman Space Telescope and the Habitable Worlds Observatory. She also develops new instrumentation to achieve her research goals when they cannot be accomplished with existing facilities. She has served as the optical engineer and/or instrument scientist on several large facility exoplanet instruments including Subaru/CHARIS and the GPI2.0 IFS.