Edwin (Ted) Bergin (born 15 February 1967) is a US astrophysicist who is currently the Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan (2019).
After five years as a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1990–95), he was appointed astronomer/astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
[1] He investigates the physics and chemistry involved in planet and star formation, including the molecular origins of life.
He is at the present time (2019) concentrating on the study of water and organics to determine the conditions under which molecules are formed and how they react to radiation.
[2] He was part of the team that determined that ice on the comet 103P/Hartley (Hartley 2) has the same chemical composition as the oceans of Earth and was also involved in the detection of cold water vapor in the planet-forming disk of the star TW Hydrae.