Research Themes
Terrestrial & Exoplanet Atmospheres
What determines whether a terrestrial planet retains, loses, or transforms its atmosphere over time, and how can we characterize exoplanet atmospheres to constrain their climates, compositions, and habitability?
Evolution of Ocean Planets & Climate
Where do planets get their water from, and how do factors like protoplanetary disk accretion, system architecture, interior-atmosphere exchange, and stellar evolution influence the emergence of habitability on terrestrial rocky planets?
Extreme Worlds & Interior-Orbital Dynamics
How do ultra-short period (USP) planets form and evolve, and what can magma ocean worlds reveal about the feedbacks between tidal heating, resonance-driven migration, and interior thermal evolution, and the extremes of rocky planet evolution?