Mercedes López-Morales

Mercedes López-Morales is a Spanish-American astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Maryland, who works on detection and characterization of exoplanet atmospheres.

Education and career López-Morales studied physics during her undergraduate program at Universidad de La Laguna, in the Canary Islands, Spain. During her tenure at the Carnegie Science DTM, López-Morales was also a postdoc at the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). In 2007, López-Morales was awarded a Hubble Fellowship. While at the NAI, she worked on two different projects, From Molecular Clouds to Habitable Planetary Systems and Looking Outward: Studies of the Physical and Chemical Evolution of Planetary Systems.