Students

Student participants

Please click on the links to see the reports from the students of the 2016 program. 

 

Name:
Ashley D. Baker		 Afilliation:
The University of Pennsylvania		 Project Title: Assessing cloud structure using parametric and self-consistent models in retrieval
PhD Advisor:
Cullen Blake		 Research Interests:
Narrowband spectrophotometry; surveying transiting exoplanet atmospheres		 Project Advisors: Jasmina Blecic
 
Name:
Cecilia W.S. Leung		 Afilliation:
Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona		 Project Title:1D Cloud Model for Terrestrial Exoplanets
PhD Advisor: Scot Rafkin; Alfred McEwen Research Interests: Global and Mesoscale Atmospheric Dynamics; Clouds, Dust, and Hazes; Habitability Project Advisors: Tyler Robinson
 
Name:
Corentin Cadiou		 Afilliation:
ENS Paris		 Project Title: Exoplanet Evaporation
PhD Advisor:
Yohan Dubois, Christophe Pichon		 Research Interests:
Large scale flows (filaments, halos, …) in the Universe and the formation of galaxies; the origin of the Hubble sequence.		 Project Advisors: James Owen and Fred Adams
 
Name:
Diana Powell		 Afilliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz		 Project Title: Chemical Indicators of Protoplanetary Disk Processes and Surface Density
PhD Advisor:
Xi Zhang		 Research Interests:
Exoplanet Characterization, Planet Formation and Evolution, Planetary Atmospheres		 Project Advisors: Ruth Murray-Clay
 
Name:
George D McDonald		 Afilliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology		 Project Title: Exploring the super-Earth desert
PhD Advisor:
James Wray		 Research Interests:
Atmospheric retrievals on Mars and Titan, radiative transfer modeling		 Project Advisors: Laura Kreidberg and Eric Lopez
 
Name:
Katherina Feng		 Afilliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz		 Project Title: Constraining Habitability with Reflected-light Observations of Another Earth
PhD Advisor:
Jonathan Fortney		 Research Interests:
Exoplanet characterization, planetary atmospheres.		 Project Advisors: Tyler Robinson
 
Name:
Kazumasa Ohno		 Afilliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology		 Project Title: Influence of planetary obliquity on atmospheric dynamics on non-synchronized exoplanets
PhD Advisor:
Satoshi Okuzumi		 Research Interests:
Clouds of exoplanetary atmospheres		 Project Advisors: Xi Zhang
 
Name:
Laura Mayorga		 Afilliation:
New Mexico State University		 Project Title: How Do Brown Dwarfs Grow?
PhD Advisor:
Jason Jackiewicz		 Research Interests:
Exoplanet Atmospheres, Polarization, and Direct Imaging		 Project Advisors: Kaitlin Kratter
 
Name:
Matej Malik		 Afilliation:
University of Bern, Switzerland		 Project Title: Clouds on a water runaway greenhouse
PhD Advisor:
Kevin Heng		 Research Interests:
Radiative Transfer in Atmospheres		 Project Advisors: Colin Goldblatt
 
Name:
Natasha Batalha		 Afilliation:
Pennsylvania State University/NASA Goddard		 Project Title: Information Content Analysis for Selection of JWST modes
PhD Advisor:
Jim Kasting, Avi Mandell		 Research Interests:
photochemical & climate modeling, instrument simulations		 Project Advisors: Mike Line
 
Name:
Néstor Espinoza		 Afilliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile		 Project Title: What are giant planets made of? Atmospheric composition beyond the C/O ratio
PhD Advisor:
Andrés Jordán		 Research Interests:
Detection and characterization of extrasolar planets		 Project Advisors: Jonathan Fortney and Yamila Miguel
 
Name:
Peter Gao		 Afilliation:
Caltech		 Project Title:Photochemical Hazes in Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
PhD Advisor:
Yuk L. Yung		 Research Interests:
Planetary atmospheres, icy satellites, RV method for exoplanet detection		 Project Advisors: Mark Marley and Kevin Zahnle
 
Name:
Ryan Garland		 Afilliation:
University of Oxford		 Project Title:Characterizing Cloudy L/T Dwarf Atmospheres with Bayesian Inference
PhD Advisor:
Patrick Irwin, Suzanne Aigrain		 Research Interests:
Brown dwarf and exoplanetary atmospheres		 Project Advisors: Mike Line
 
Name:
Ryan MacDonald		 Afilliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge		 Project Title: Water Vapor in Cool Giant Planets
PhD Advisor:
Nikku Madhusudhan		 Research Interests:
Exoplanet transmission spectroscopy, modelling exoplanet atmospheres		 Project Advisors: Mark Marley
 
Name:
Thaddeus Komacek		 Afilliation:
University of Arizona		 Project Title:Water Cycling Between Surface and Mantle: What Ingredients Make a Waterworld?
PhD Advisor:
Adam Showman		 Research Interests:
Atmospheric circulation, climate, and internal evolution		 Project Advisors: Dorian Abbot
 
Name:
Tom Louden		 Afilliation:
University of Warwick		 Project Title: Creating a fast code to map the surfaces of exoplanets
PhD Advisor:Peter Wheatley Research Interests:Exoplanet atmospheres: composition, structure, dynamics! Project Advisors: Laura Kreidberg
 
Name:
Yui Kawashima		 Afilliation:
The University of Tokyo		 Project Title: Impact of clouds on detecting oxygen
PhD Advisor:
Masahiro Ikoma		 Research Interests:
Exoplanetary atmospheres; atmospheric chemistry and hazes		 Project Advisors: Sarah Rugheimer