Welcome! I'm Aida ("eye-duh")
I work at the intersection of exoplanets and galactic archaeology

... Which exists now that we're in the era of large surveys, and are discovering exoplanets on industrial scales - it's an exciting time!

I use statistical/data-centric techniques to extract information on stars and their planets from surveys (e.g., Gaia, SDSS), and targeted spectroscopic/RV observations. I'm interested in:

• Planet demographics in different regions of our Galaxy, the Milky Way
• Fingerprints of planet formation and dynamics (e.g., engulfment, obliquity excitation) in host star properties (e.g., kinematics, chemical abundances, ages).
• Binary stars as tracers of the Milky Way's structure and formation history.

I grew up in Salem, Oregon. I was an undergrad at Yale (B.S., Physics, 2015), a graduate student at Caltech (Ph.D., Planetary Science, 2023), and a Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) (2023-2024) before starting my current position.

This is my cat, Interstellar Medium ("Izzy").

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