Extrasolar Planets
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Andrew Vanderburg
My research focuses on studying exoplanets, or planets which orbit stars other than the Sun. I am interested in developing cutting-edge techniques and methods to discover new planets outside of our solar system, and studying the planets we find to learn...
Qijia Zhou
Research Interests: Astrochemistry, protoplanetary disks, planet formation, origins of life
My name is pronounced Qijia (chee-jah) Zhou (zo).
Jonah Peter
Jennifer Yee
Research Interests: Microlensing searches for exoplanets, brown dwarfs, and other objects, including detailed characterization using space-based microlensing parallaxes.
Andrew Szentgyorgyi
Szentgyorgyi has worked in a number of astrophysical areas including neutrino astronomy, very high energy gamma astronomy and X-ray astronomy. For the last two decades he has focused on optical high dispersion stellar spectroscopy with a focus on...
John Asher Johnson
Research Interests: The detection and characterization of exoplanets.
Received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Astronomy from UC Berkeley, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now known as the Missouri University of Science and Technology)...
David Latham
Research
Exoplanets have been my main research interest in recent years, initially with a focus on the detection of candidate planets, both with radial-velocity surveys and with space missions such as Kepler and TESS. Now my focus is on the confirmation...