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December 2025 MSBR Luncheon with Shawn Domagal-Goldman

December 10 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm EST

Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Acting Director, Astrophysics Division, Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters 

Our December guest speaker will be Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Deputy Director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Domagal-Goldman’s background is in astrobiology, Earth systems science, and comparative planetology. He has collaborated with talented early career researchers who span career stages from high school interns through postdocs and research scientists. He co-mentors an interdisciplinary team, simulating the atmospheres of other worlds, including those of ancient Earth, modern Mars, ancient Mars, and exoplanets. They have used outputs from those simulations to interpret data from the Mars Curiosity rover, from some of Earth’s most ancient rocks, and to simulate the capabilities of future space-based telescopes designed to look for life on exoplanets.

Domagal-Goldman has served on multiple interdisciplinary research and mission teams, including the Curiosity science team, the HabEx Science and Technology Definition Team (STDT), the Exoplanet-Starshade Probe Misscion Concept STDT, the Large UV-Optical-Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) Study Office, the Virtual Planet Laboratory (VPL), and the Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with Dynamics (ROCKE-3D) team. He is also involved in the leadership of the Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science. He is passionate about science communication and bringing research results back to the public.

The topic of his December talk will be Astrophysics in the Age of Artemis.

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MSBR December 10 Luncheon Registration
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