Assistant Professor
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences | Department of Bacteriology
Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. Betül Kaçar is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she leads a NASA-funded astrobiology research center and her own molecular paleobiology laboratory. Across research endeavors, Kaçar explores fundamental questions about how life originated and evolved on Earth and how we find life beyond our solar system. She partnered with UN Women to expand representation in STEM globally. Asteroid 284919 Kaçar, discovered by astronomers using the NASA WISE space telescope, was named in her honor.
Talks:
The Foundations of Life on Earth
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Origins of Life
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Search for Life in the Universe
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