Artist's rendering of potentially habitable exoplanets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech)

Uncovering new worlds with Professor Tansu Daylan

A student-run podcast that explores science and medicine through the eyes of experts

Master Minds is a student-led science podcast hosted by Mishka Narasimhan and Will Leidig, that interviews WashU faculty and alumni who are leaders in their respective fields of science or medicine.

Episode #34: Uncovering New Worlds with Prof. Tansu Daylan, PhD

Episode #34 features Tansu Daylan, astrophysicist, Assistant Professor of Physics, and faculty fellow in the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences here at WashU. Dr. Daylan works with data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite on the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. He is also interested in researching the particle nature of dark matter. Have you ever been interested in how researchers discover planets outside our solar system? Or perhaps wondered if life could exist in other corners of our universe? Listen on to find out!

Master Minds Episode 34