About

I am a final-year graduate student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I work with Natalie Batalha to detect and precisely characterize exoplanets.

I am an experienced Keck-HIRES observer and a member of the TESS-Keck Survey (see Chontos+ 2022 for a survey overview).

As an undergraduate and master's student at Stanford University, I worked with Bruce Macintosh and Ian Czekala on disentangling the spectra of T Tauri stars using Gaussian processes.

In my free time I love to run, cycle, surf, and swim.

Image: Keck I and II, Ethan Tweedie

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

  • PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, expected 2025

Stanford University

  • MS in Applied and Engineering Physics, 2019
  • BS in Physics, 2018

Paper Spotlight

In Akana Murphy et al. (2023), we report mass measurements for 12 planets across eight TESS systems. We use an end-to-end joint photometry, radial velocity, and stellar activity modeling framework to homogeneously derive planet parameters. Our code is publicly available online.

Image: The exoplanet mass-radius diagram.