# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sara-seager
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:13:04.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sara-seager"
name: "Sara Seager"
slug: "sara-seager"
description: "Sara Seager is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, though she will return to her alma mater the University of Toronto to join the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) as North Star Distinguished Professor, starting September 1, 2026. Seager is known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the author of two textbooks on these topics, and has been recognized for her research by Popular Science, Discover Magazine, Nature, and TIME Magazine. Seager was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 citing her theoretical work on detecting chemical signatures on exoplanet atmospheres and developing low-cost space observatories to observe planetary transits."
tagline: "Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sara_Seager.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1971-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump