The tEAM
DAVID KIPPING
Principal Investigator
"Through science, we learn the rules of this grand game. Through loopholes, we touch the stars."
DANIEL YAHALOMI
Graduate Student
Daniel is working on a method to determine the orbital properties of perturbing planets in TTV observations for single transiting planets, and performing model selection.
BEN CASSESE
Graduate Student
Ben has been developing a framework for measuring the detectability of exomoons in ultra high precision data, such as JWST. Ben is also working on exoplanet eccentricity demographics.
JUSTIN VEGA
PhD Candidate
Justin is studying the detectability of oblate exoplanets in transit light curves, especially high precision archival observations such as those from JWST.
STEPHEN COFFEY
PhD Candidate
Stephen is investigating second order effects that contaminate transit spectroscopy, with the goal to improve the accuracy of molecular abundance retrievals.
MATT SCOGGINS
Graduate Student
Matt has been moonlighting in the Cool Worlds Lab, working on SETI related projects. In particular, Matt is developing methods to look for Starlifted stars in survey data.
JULIA HAYNES
Undergraduate Researcher
Julia is investigating the crater history of the Moon and trying to understand how long artifacts could survive given the impact history.
ANDREW ZHANG
Undergraduate Researcher
Andrew is investigating the breakdown of classical exomoon TTV theory in the extreme limits of very close in satellites.
AVISHI PODDAR
Undergraduate Researcher
Avishi has been developing open source software for the simulation of oblate exoplanet transit light curves.