Debra Ann Fischer is a professor of astronomy at Yale University. Fischer has co-authored over 100 papers on dwarf 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 is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets.[1]
Debra Fischer received her PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley while managing the Lick Observatory planet search program.[2][3]
Debra Fischer has three children.
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 for Earth-like extrasolar planets.