Sobre Knicole Colon: Dr. Knicole Colón is an Astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. She is currently the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Operations Project Scientist and the Project Scientist for the Pandora SmallSat mission. She previously served as the Deputy Operations Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Deputy Project Scientist for Exoplanet Science for JWST, and the Project Scientist for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Her research involves the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets (or exoplanets), which are planets that orbit distant stars. She uses a variety of optical and infrared telescopes to study exoplanets, including HST, JWST, and TESS. Her research focuses on studying “extreme” exoplanets that are unlike any planets in our solar system, to learn about the composition of their atmospheres and gain insight into how they formed and evolved. Show less