Prof. Sharon Xuesong Wang is an astronomer working on the detection and characterization of extra-solar planets, especially planets that are similar to our Earth and Jupiter. She is a faculty member in the Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University. She received her PhD from Penn State and was a Carnegie Postdoc Fellow before joining Tsinghua in 2020. She's the Project Scientist for CHORUS, a high precision spectrograph being built by China that will search and characterize Earth-like planets in the solar neighborhood.
