About

Hello! I am a PhD Candidate at UCLA working with Professor Smadar Naoz. 

My research is interested in the dynamics, stability, and detectability of exoplanet systems with multiple planets orbiting close to their host stars, including:

• How does having multiple planets in a system create (potentially) destabilizing resonances?

• How can effects like General Relativity, and Stellar Oblateness frustrate these resonances?

• How can Stellar Oblateness instead mediate and propogate these resonances, potentially destabilizing and misaligning systems of multiple planets?

• How does the exchange of angular momentum between planets during these resonances affect detectability? In cases where some planets align, this actually increases the all-planet transit probability of the system, but by how much? 

• Can we leverage the increase in transit probability caused by these resonances to constrain otherwise (almost) impossible to constrain parameters, such as the initial stellar spin of a presently >1Gyr old sunlike star?