Faculty Directory
Department Chair: Raja Guha Thakurta | Department Manager: Lindsay Lauver |
Vice Chair: Jonathan Fortney | Graduate Advisor: Libby Severson |
Graduate Program Director: Andrew Skemer | Department Assistant: Vacant |
Undergraduate Program Director: Natalie Batalha | Program Coordinator, Astrobiology Institute: Vacant |

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- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
- Department
- Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
- Phone 831-459-2944
- Website
- Office Location
- Center for Adaptive Optics, 101
- Mail Stop UCO / Lick Observatory
Research Interests
My research focuses on extreme adaptive optics technology development and observational exoplanet science. I study the atmospheres of gas giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs using near-infrared polarimetry while pushing the state of the art in wavefront sensing and control to discover new exoplanets.
Biography, Education and Training
2008-2012 MIT, B.S.
2012-2017 Caltech, M.S. and Ph.D.
2017-2019 UC Berkeley, Miller Fellow
2020- UC Santa Cruz, Assistant Professor