Profile view of Natalia Guerrero. She is smiling and looking forward while seated on the back of a black leather chair. She is holding a pencil in one hand and leaning forward.
Photo credit: Studio T Photography

Natalia Guerrero

cazaplanetas/planet-hunter:
Art + astronomy graduate student, TESS Science consultant, and science communicator
Former TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) Manager and MIT-TESS Communications Lead at the MIT TESS Science Office.
 I am an astronomer, artist, and science communicator. I study exoplanets as a graduate student in the Ballard research group at the University of Florida and create works of text and performance as a student in the UF Studio Art MFA program.

Previously, I worked at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research on the NASA TESS mission. I managed the team that identifies potential exoplanets among the hundreds of thousands of stars in the TESS images. I studied physics and creative writing at MIT and graduated in 2014.

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UF Astronomy \\ Gainesville, FL
MIT Press \\ Cambridge, MA
​ Community School of the Arts \\ 
     Women in the Arts, Inc. \\ Orlando, FL
Voice Box + Charles River Variety 
     WMBR Radio \\ Cambridge, MA
​Exploding Wire \\
     MIT K-12 Videos