# Alycia J. Weinberger

> Alycia J. Weinberger is a staff member at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Weinberger started her recent position as co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 2023. She is considered an observational astronomer and her focus is in planet formation, exoplanets, and brown dwarfs. She examines early development of planets and their interactions with surrounding circumstellar disk. Before joining the Carnegie scientific staff in 2001, she was a Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) postdoctoral researcher and astrobiology postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her B.A. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD from Caltech. In 1991, she was recognized by the Phi Beta Kappa. She is the 2000 winner of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy and the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal of Astronomical Society of India for 2000. In 2019 she was selected to become a fellow of the American Astronomical Society. Dr Weinberger has worked at the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Labretory since 2001 and was promoted to Associate Division Director in 2023. She was a full time staff scientist there for 24 years before she became promoted, and has been in this position ever since.

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1950
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

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