Karolina welcomes Dr. Romy Rodríguez Martínez, an astrophysicist and Future Faculty Leaders Fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Romy’s research focuses on the discovery and characterization of small, potentially habitable exoplanets, and on how the chemistry of stars influences the planets that form around them.

In this episode, they explore the cutting-edge techniques used to detect exoplanets, the challenges of measuring their composition, and what these distant worlds can tell us about the possibility of life beyond Earth.