Michael Line ("Mike")
Michael Line ("Mike")
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DEXTERS Lab Group PI and Associate Professor in SESE at ASU. Primarily focus on innovative new theoretical and observational methods for characterizing exoplanet and substellar atmospheres (CV).
Associate Professor, SESE ASU, 2022
Assistant Professor, SESE ASU, 2016
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Ames, 2015
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California-Santa Cruz, 2013
Ph.D. in Planetary Science, Caltech, 2013
Peter is a 6th year Ph.D. student and former NASA FINESST awardee working on the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres with high resolution ground based spectroscopy.
NASA FINESST: "Innovations in Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres with High Resolution Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy", 2022-2024
B.S. in Astronomy and Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 2020
Sai Krishna Teja Kanumalla ("Krishna")
Sai Krishna Teja Kanumalla ("Krishna")
Krishna is a 4th year Ph.D. student working on high resolution ground based transmission & emission spectroscopy with aim of disentangling 3-dimensional composition and temperature effects.
M.S. in Physics & Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, 2022
B.T. in Engineering Physics, National Institute of Technology-Calicut, 2020
Jorge is is a 5th year Ph.D. student working in our group on characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with high resolution ground based spectroscopy and also characterizing brown dwarf atmospheres with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes (with Prof. Jenny Patience).
B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, 2021
Yoav is a 4th year Ph.D. student working with both Prof. Welbanks and myself on projects related to understanding the data/model nuances that drive biased inferences in atmospheric retrievals, with applications to JWST.
B.S. in Astronomy and Physics, University of Maryland, 2022
Former Group Members
Former Group Members
Luis is currently an Assistant Professor at ASU and a former Heising-Simons Foundation 51-Pegasi b Fellow & Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow studying the atmospheres of exoplanets. Luis' primary focus was on developing the robust atmospheric retrieval methodologies to obtain reliable constraints on atmospheric composition and climate from their spectra. Check out his group website!
Heising-Simons Foundation 51-Pegasi b Fellow, ASU, 2024
NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow, ASU, 2021
Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 2021
M.S. in Astrophysics, University of Calgary, 2017
B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary, 2015
Megan is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and a form Heising-Simons Foundation 51-Pegasi b Fellow studying the atmospheres of exoplanets. Megan's primary focus is on understanding the existence of atmospheres on planets around M-dwarfs, high resolution spectroscopy with ground based telescopes, and secondary eclipse mapping .
Heising-Simons Foundation 51-Pegasi b Fellow, ASU, 2024
NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona, 2021
Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 2021
B.S. in Physics and in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
Lindsey is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns-Hopkins Applied Physics Lab as of Fall 2025. She earned her Ph.D. from ASU in the spring of 2025 on research focused on building self-consistent models of atmospheres to interpret JWST transit observations . She is also heavily involved in space policy advocacy.
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, 2025
Thesis Title: "From Hubble to JWST and Beyond: Revealing Exoplanet Formation and Climate with Space Telescopes"
B.S. in Engineering Mechanics & Earth and Planetary Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2020
Aisha is currently a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center working in the Pandora small sat team. She earned her Ph.D. from ASU in the spring of 2023 and worked on building state of the art models of M-dwarf atmospheres.
Ph.D. in Astrophysics, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, 2023
Thesis Title: "The M-Dwarf Atmosphere Problem"
NASA FINESST: "Determination of Fundamental Properties of M-Dwarf Atmospheres", 2021-2023
M.S. in Physics, Cal State Northridge, 2017
B.S. in Physics, UC-San Diego, 2015
Isabella Huckabee, B.S., May 2023. Undergraduate in our group. Currently a Ph.D. student at Cornell.
Joe Zalesky, Ph.D., Aug. 2022. Former FINESST awardee at ASU. Worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas-Austin in Dr. Caroline Morley's Group. Now he works for the "dark side" at LLNL
Kezman Saboi, M.S., Dec. 2020. Worked as research staff at Northern Arizona University working in the PIXEL. No working in the tech sector in the Portland area.
Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad, Ph.D., June 2019. Was a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center followed by a research scientist at NASA Ames. Ehsan now works in industry on a variety of machine learning topics.
Luke Tremblay, M.S., Dec. 2019. Currently a Business Analyst at Apple in Austin Texas.
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