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my name is Lauren poyo and I'm an

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astronomer at the Space Telescope

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Science Institute I did my undergraduate

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economic barrier in cash or in France

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and then i went for Princeton for

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graduate school I do research on

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exoplanets taking a picture of planets

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next to a nearby star you have a star

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that's 10 billion times brighter than

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the planet both the light of the star in

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the plant get into your telescope what

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you need to use is an optical device

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that's called the corner breath it's

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just a filter but it's very clever

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filled that's able to make the

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difference between starlight and planet

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like in terms of coronal graph design

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themselves I would say two or three

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years ago all we really do well is when

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the telescope looks like a big circle we

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had no idea how to design them for phila

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scopes are a little more complicated

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like the James Webb with all these exams

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and stuff and I've put out a few ideas

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on how to do it it turns out you don't

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need a circle you can have any telescope

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design we think that it's going to

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enable us to launch much bigger

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apertures in space so by aperture we

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mean like the size of the of the big

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mirror

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I think it's great long got this award

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he's a very bright young scientist and

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he's working on an extremely difficult

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task and the work he's done will help

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pave the way to build future space

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telescopes to observe planets that look

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like the news I was so excited here that

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Laurent won this prize Moreau is so

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energetic and enthusiastic about his

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work and he's already made contributions

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to discovery and characterization of

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giant planets around young stars I like

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to build stuff I was illegal kind of kid

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I kind of some point realize that I want

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to build something that that I was like

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some greater purpose not sweater

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purposes of course to detect the planet

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that looks like birth it's one of the