Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. in Planetary Science, Feb 2024
B.S. in Physics, June 2016
I have spent the last decade at MIT. In February 2024, I completed my Ph.D. in Planetary Science at MIT in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science under the supervision of Prof. Sara Seager. My research focused on modeling the atmospheres of exoplanets to better understand their origins and potential habitability.
I first came to MIT as an undergraduate, earning my B.S. in Physics in 2016. Between undergrad and grad school, I worked for two years on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), prior to launch. Working on TESS inspired me to return to graduate school so I could study these worlds in depth.
Undergraduate Research
As an undergraduate, I gained research experience across several different areas of astrophysics. I worked with Prof. Fiona Harrison (Caltech) on high-energy, X-ray astronomy with NuSTAR; with Dr. Martin Elvis (Harvard/CfA) on observations and modeling of active supermassive black holes; and with Prof. Rob Simcoe (MIT/MKI) on early universe galaxy evolution. These projects gave me a strong foundation in modeling, astronomical observations, and data analysis, which I now apply to the field of exoplanet science.