Leadership, Origins Of Life, Planets, public engagement, Solar System, Webb Space Telescope
Dr. Heidi Hammel is an Interdisciplinary Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope and Vice President for Science at AURA. She previously served as a member of the Imaging Science Team for the Voyager 2 Neptune Encounter, and spent many years at MIT as a Principal Research Scientist. Dr. Hammel has used Hubble many times to study Neptune and Uranus, and led the Hubble Team that investigated Jupiter鈥檚 atmospheric response to the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.