Victoria Meadows
Victoria Suzanne Meadows is a Professor with the Astronomy Department and Director of the Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington. She is also the Principal Investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory Lead Team and the chair of the NAI Focus Group on Habitability and Astronomical Biosignatures (HAB). The research direction of the team is to create computer models that can be used to understand planet formation, stability and orbital evolution, and to simulate the environment and spectra of planets that can potentially be habitable.She obtained her B.Sc. in physics from the University of New South Wales, and a Ph.D. in physics from the Astrophysics Department of the University of Sydney.
''Scientific American'' consulted her for comments when the Kepler space telescope mission discovered large numbers of planets orbiting distant stars. Provided by Wikipedia
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