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

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Luis is currently a NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow studying the atmospheres of exoplanets. Luis's primary focus is on developing the robust atmospheric retrieval methodologies to obtain reliable constraints on atmospheric composition and climate from their spectra. 

NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow, SESE 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

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Aisha is currently a 6th year Ph.D. student and NASA FINESST awardee working on M-dwarf atmospheric characterization. Aisha developed an entirely new M-dwarf stellar atmosphere model grid, SPHINX, coupled to a Bayesian Inference tool in order to derive fundamental M-dwarf atmosphere properties.

NASA FINESST: "Determination of Fundamental Properties of M-Dwarf Atmospheres", 2021

M.S. in Physics, Cal. State. Northridge, 2017

B.S. in Physics, University of California-San Diego, 2015

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Lindsey is a 3rd year Ph.D. student working on  self-consistent grid modeling of exoplanet atmospheres in order to interpret spectra from JWST.  She is also heavily involved in space policy advocacy.

B.S. in Engineering Mechanics & Earth and Planetary Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2020

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Peter is a 3rd year Ph.D. student and 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

B.S. in Astronomy and Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 2020

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Jorge is is a 2nd 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 Space Telescope (with Prof. Jenny Patience).  

B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, 2021

Yoav is a 1st year Ph.D. student working towards 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

Krishna is a 1st year Ph.D. student working on high resolution ground based transmission spectroscopy with aim of disentangling 3-dimensional composition and temperature effects along the planetary limbs.  

M.S. in Physics & Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, 2022

B.T. in Engineering Physics, National Institute of Technology-Calicut, 2020

Izzy is a senior undergraduate student working on many different projects, including citizen science transit light curve analysis and bayesian inference analysis on brown dwarf spectra using radiative convective equilibrium models.  Izzy was also a NASA Space Grant awardee and is currently a Goldwater Scholarship winner.