Planetary Science Graduate Student
I'm a 3rd year planetary science graduate student and NSF Fellow at Caltech. My research interests include exoplanets and their atmospheres, as well as planet formation and evolution.
I study escaping atmospheres on exoplanets in order to determine if a planet will lose a significant amount of its atmosphere over time. Quantifying the amount of atmospheric loss happening on these worlds is crucial to understanding their evolution and predicting their formation.
Image Credit: Engine House VFX, At-Bristol Science Centre, University of Exeter.
I am currently exploring different formation and migration pathways of exoplanet systems and the dynamical interactions necessary to incite these migration pathways. I am also interested in studying signs of formation through accretion and circumplanetary disks.
Image Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech.
Using near-infrared spectroscopy, I study the surface composition of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The composition of these asteroids is indicative of their formation location, and may hold fundamental clues on the formation and evolution of the Outer Solar System.
Image Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech.
