Meet the people who make up STEM Faculty.
I recently held an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, to investigate how 3D structure of exoplanet atmospheres can be inferred from observations obtained during transit and eclipse. I was a member of the Habitable Worlds Observatory START Characterizing Exoplanets working group steering committee, and I am also a Science Group lead for the European Space Agency Ariel mission (https://ariel-spacemission.eu/). I previously held a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship at University College London, prior to which I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2011.
I previously served on the Royal Astronomical Society Council from 2015 - 2016 and 2021 - 2024. I am a mentor for the Supernova Foundation, which aims to support junior women starting their careers in physics, especially those from developing countries.
My research area is planetary atmosphere modelling, with a current focus on extrasolar planets. I use spectral inversion techniques to infer atmospheric temperature structure and the presence of gases and aerosols from spectra obtained during exoplanet transit and eclipse. My particular interest is modelling and observation of clouds and hazes on exoplanets. Recent work includes a comparison of techniques for modelling cloudy hot Jupiters.
My current teaching interests include contributing to the delivery and development of recently-launched astronomy module S384.
