About me

I’ve moved!  I’m currently working as an NPP Fellow at NASA Goddard. Here is my current website (https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/noah.w.tuchow)

The following information is from when I was a graduate student at Penn State and hasn’t been updated recently.

I’m Noah Wolfe Tuchow, a current NPP Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Goddard. I recently graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics with a dual-title in Astrobiology.  My research is focused on the long-term habitability of exoplanets and how stars and their habitable zones evolve in time.  I worked on my thesis research with my advisor, Professor Jason Wright, developing a mathematical framework to determine which stars are the best candidates to host planets with biosignatures.

I have also done research in a variety of other areas including exoplanet transit timing variations, searching for high proper motion brown dwarfs, and applied optics for airborne remote sensing.

My work has recently been in the news. See Press Releases for more information.

Education:

PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Dual-title Astrobiology, Penn State University. 2022

MS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State University. 2019

BA, Physics, Specialization in Astrophysics, University of Chicago. 2015

Publications

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