Autism Is My Superpower With Guest Sara Seager

About this episode

Martha and Indira discuss the intersection of autism and scientific achievement with guest Sara Seager.

In this episode Martha and Indira speak candidly with Sara Seager, a Canadian-American, world-renowned leader in astrophysics and planetary science. A professor at MIT, she has been instrumental in advancing the study of planets outside our solar system. Her research has greatly improved our understanding of the wide variety of exoplanets that exist in the galaxy and pushed us closer to finding another Earth-like world that could support life. After obtaining her Bachelor of Science deg...

People in this episode

Hosts: Martha Piper, Indira Samarasekera

Guest: Sara Seager

Topics covered

• autism
• astrophysics
• planetary science
• exoplanets
• science communication

Keywords

• autism
• Sara Seager
• astrophysics
• exoplanets
• MIT
• science
• planetary science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT

Places: Canada, United States

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