Heike Rauer (born 18 June 1961)[1] is a Germanastronomer specializing inexoplanets and theirdetection methods. Rauer has been the Head of the Institute of Planetary Research at theGerman Aerospace Center since November 2017. She is also the head of the instrument consortium for theEuropean Space Agency'sPLATO space telescope, which set to launch in 2026. Previously, she is a member ofCoRoT,Rosetta's MIROspectrometer and theNext Generation Transit Survey collaborations.[2][3]
Rauer said that her inspiration to follow space science came from theApollo program, though later in life, due to her dislike of physics in school, she applied to an art college and got rejected. By the next year, that art college accepted Rauer's application, but she declined the offer to study physics in theUniversity of Hanover. Her doctorate thesis is about plasmacomet tails.[3] Her name is on one of theminor planets,10025 Rauer.[4]
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