Kamber Schwarz joined LPL in September 2018 as a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Sagan Fellow working with Associate Professor Ilaria Pascucci. Kamber's research combines millimeter and sub-millimeter observations with chemical modeling to study the molecular content and physical properties of protoplanetary disks. She is interested in constraining the timescales and mechanisms for the removal of volatile molecules from the disk gas, with the goal of determining the amount of volatile carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen available to forming planets.

Kamber grew up in Hereford, Arizona. She received her B.S. in Astronomy and Physics in 2012 from the University of Arizona, where she was also a NASA Space Grant intern. She earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Michigan with Professor Edwin Bergin (2018). Her graduate work focused on characterizing the abundance of volatile molecular gas in disks. During her free time, Kamber enjoys practicing yoga and playing table top games.