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Johanna Teske is a Hubble Fellow at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Teske's research focuses on measuring the abundances of different elements in exoplanet hot stars to investigate the starting conditions of planet formation and also discover planets outside the Solar System.

Education and Early Career
Teske studied Physics at the American University and then earned a Master's Degree in Astronomy at the University of Arizona. She then continued her postgraduate studies in Arizona and graduated with a PhD in Astronomy in 2014. She was supervised by Drs Caitlin Griffith and Katia Cunha. Teske worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Science after she completed her PhD and was promoted to NASA Hubble Fellow at the same institution.

Research
Teske's research involves the study of different elements in exoplanet hot stars to examine the starting chemical conditions for planet formation. Specifically, Teske uses high resolution optical spectrometers and telescopes such as the Magellan II telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Teske is trying to locate planets outside the Solar system, and find out what they are made of.

Teske's research group received NASA funding to search for exoplanets with up to three times the radius of Earth (known as super-Earths). Teske begun to search for exoplanets using NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in October 2018. Teske has recently published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters as her group discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet using TESS.

Johanna Teske is the President of Scientista.