Abel Méndez

Professor Abel Méndez is a planetary astrobiologist and Director, at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. His research focuses on the habitability of potentially habitable exoplanets. Méndez is also a NASA MIRS Fellow with research experience at NASA, and the Arecibo Observatory.^[1]^[2]

He is best known for being one of the scientists who developed the Earth Similarity Index, a proposed characterization of how similar a planetary-mass object or natural satellite is to Earth.^[3]

References

^ "Las "misteriosas señales" que astrónomos de Puerto Rico captaron provenientes de Ross 128, una estrella cercana a la Tierra". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-13.
^ "Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL @ UPR Arecibo - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo". phl.upr.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
^ Schulze-Makuch, Dirk; Méndez, Abel; Fairén, Alberto G.; von Paris, Philip; Turse, Carol; Boyer, Grayson; Davila, Alfonso F.; António, Marina Resendes De Sousa; Catling, David; Irwin, Louis N. (2011). "A Two-Tiered Approach to Assessing the Habitability of Exoplanets". Astrobiology. 11 (10): 1041–1052. Bibcode:2011AsBio..11.1041S. doi:10.1089/ast.2010.0592. ISSN 1531-1074. PMID 22017274.

[1] "Las "misteriosas señales" que astrónomos de Puerto Rico captaron provenientes de Ross 128, una estrella cercana a la Tierra". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-13.

[2] "Abel Méndez, Director of the PHL @ UPR Arecibo - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo". phl.upr.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-13.

[3] Schulze-Makuch, Dirk; Méndez, Abel; Fairén, Alberto G.; von Paris, Philip; Turse, Carol; Boyer, Grayson; Davila, Alfonso F.; António, Marina Resendes De Sousa; Catling, David; Irwin, Louis N. (2011). "A Two-Tiered Approach to Assessing the Habitability of Exoplanets". Astrobiology. 11 (10): 1041–1052. Bibcode:2011AsBio..11.1041S. doi:10.1089/ast.2010.0592. ISSN 1531-1074. PMID 22017274.