Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research interests include theory, computation, and data analysis of exoplanets. She spent 4 years at the senior research staff at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and 3 years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ; as well, she holds a PhD from Harvard University. Seager is on the advisory board for Planetary Resources and she is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, the 2012 recipient of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences, and the 2007 recipient of the American Astronomical Society’s Helen B. Warner Prize.