Current Team Members

Postdoctoral Researchers

Anne Dattilo

CEHW Postdoctoral Fellow & ICDS Rising Researcher

Exploring new approaches to Simulation-based Inference for characterizing exoplanet populations.

Rachel Fernandes

CEHW Postdoctoral Fellow

Connecting diverse observations of planetary systems to fundamental theories in planet formation. Currently working on detecting transiting planets in young clusters and comparing demographics with Kepler's Gyr-old population.
Co-Chair of NASA's ExoPAG Exoplanet Demographics Science Interest Group 2 (SIG2).

Laura Flagg

CEHW Postdoctoral Fellow

Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution spectroscopy, young exoplanets, and gas dispersal timescales in circumstellar disks.

Kristo Ment

CEHW Postdoctoral Fellow

Terrestrial planets transiting M dwarfs and constraints on the occurrence of such worlds. Fast algorithms for searching for transits.
Data-driven methods for simultaneously modeling stellar and telluric variability.

Graduate Students

Evan Fitzmaurice

PhD Student

Characterization of exoplanets and brown dwarfs using radial velocity observations with HPF and NEID, and astrometry from Gaia.

Lucas Brefka

PhD Student

Formation of planetary systems, particularly systems that look nothing like our own. Computer simulations of planetesimal formation conditions and their effects on final planet properties.

Elizabeth Gonzalez

PhD Student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Developing stellar variability mitigation techniques for extreme precision radial velocity, including probing the effects of granulation on RV measurements using NEID observations during solar eclipses.

Kanishk Pandey

PhD Student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Developing stellar variability mitigation techniques for extreme precision radial velocity, exploring the potential of line-by-line measurements using NEID observations during solar eclipses.