Jane Greaves

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Jane Greaves is a British astronomer based at Cardiff University. She studied at the University of Oxford and Queen Mary University of London. Earlier in her career she worked at the University of St Andrews, where she led a team that discovered a protoplanet in the disk around the young star HL Tauri. In 2017 she received the Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her work on planet formation and exoplanet habitability, including imaging debris discs with far-infrared telescopes. In 2018 she reported findings about phosphorus in supernova remnants, noting that the Crab Nebula has much less phosphorus than Cassiopeia A, a result connected to ideas about the potential for life elsewhere. On 14 September 2020 her team announced the discovery of phosphine in Venus’s atmosphere, a finding that was later revised and, by some, disputed.