Uma Gorti

Uma Gorti

Research Scientist

Disciplines:

Degree/Major: Ph.D., Astrophysics, 1999, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India

Curriculum vitae: Gorti, Uma CV2008.pdf

ugorti@seti.org
Biography

Uma Gorti joined the SETI Institute's Carl Sagan Center in 2008 as a Principal Investigator and is mainly interested in star and planet formation. She is currently working on understanding how planet-forming disks evolve, and is developing models that one day will be compared with future observations to be taken by the Herschel, SOFIA, JWST, ALMA and other telescopes. Such studies will help us understand the conditions under which planets form and the likelihood of planet formation, and hence life, in different star forming environments.