# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betul-kacar
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:09.046Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betul-kacar"
name: "Betül Kaçar"
slug: "betul-kacar"
description: "Betül Kacar is a Turkish-American astrobiologist and an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She directs a NASA Research Center exploring the essential attributes of life, its origins and how they should shape our notions of habitability and the search for life on other worlds."
tagline: "Turkish-American astrobiologist (born 1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Betul_Kacar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1983"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.77823066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Бетюль Качар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Betül Kaçar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump