Education
Fischer received her degree from the University of Iowa in 1975, a masters of science from San Francisco State University in 1992, and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998.
Fischer received her degree from the University of Iowa in 1975, a masters of science from San Francisco State University in 1992, and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998.
She was part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system. Fischer has co-authored over 100 papers on dwarf stars and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighborhood, including many on extrasolar planets. She is a principal investigator with the N2K Consortium searching for exoplanets.
She was the primary investigator for Chiron, the CTIO High Resolution Spectrometer.
In 2011, she started the Fiber-optic Improved Next-generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths with the Planetary Society, an instrument that will help planet hunters find Earth-like extrasolar planets.
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She is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets.