# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karin-oberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:58:57.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karin-oberg"
name: "Karin Öberg"
slug: "karin-oberg"
description: "Karin Ingegerd Öberg is a Swedish astrochemist. She is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and leader of the Öberg Astrochemistry Group at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Her research concerns star formation, planet formation, and stellar evolution in relation to organic molecules, which are necessary to determine the origins of life on Earth and elsewhere. In April 2015, her group discovered the first complex organic molecule in a protoplanetary disk."
tagline: "Swedish astrochemist"
gender: "female"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1982-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~koberg/Home.html"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump