Méndez, Abel
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Méndez, Abel

Faculty Member

Positions

overview

  • Abel Méndez is a planetary astrobiologist and Director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. His research focuses on the habitability of Earth, the Solar System, and extrasolar planets. Méndez is a NASA MIRS Fellow with physics and astrophysics research experience at Fermilab, NASA Goddard, NASA Ames, and the Arecibo Observatory. Méndez is best known for developing the Earth Similarity Index, the Visible Paleo-Earth Project, and maintaining the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a database of potentially habitable worlds.

research overview

  • Planetary habitability. Theoretical models of habitat suitability in planetary environments. Characterization and detection of potentially habitable exoplanets. Radioastronomy.

full name

  • Abel Méndez

primary email

  • abel.mendez@upr.edu

phone

  • (787) 379-2363
  • Contact Info
  • (787) 379-2363