Doyeon is a third-year undergraduate student studying Earth and Planetary Science at Imperial College London, currently spending a year abroad at MIT. She is interested in understanding exoplanetary environments and assessing their potential habitability by interpreting observational data and connecting it with physical models. Her UROP project investigates whether observations can distinguish between a potentially habitable Venus-like exoplanet and an exoplanet that has undergone a runaway greenhouse transition. Using GCM climate modelling and synthetic observations, she aims to understand which observable properties could help distinguish between these different climate states.
Taichi is a third-year undergraduate student at MIT interested in the long-term evolution of planetary climates. Working with Andrea, he uses 3D general circulation models to investigate the coupling between planetary spin and climate on Venus and Venus-like planets. His research explores how rotation rate and obliquity shape climate near the inner edge of the habitable zone, and how climate influences planetary rotation through atmospheric tidal torques.
Jazmin Garza is a second-year undergraduate student studying Environmental Science & Engineering at Harvard University. She spent her J-term working to understand the long-term climate evolution and habitability of terrestrial planets. Under Andrea's mentorship, her research focused on Venus’s spin-orbit evolution and obliquity dynamics, investigating how gravitational and atmospheric tidal torques shaped the planet's backward rotation and extreme tilt over time. Using long-term evolutionary simulations, she examined how periods of extreme axial tilt impact climate stability and the duration of potential habitable states on Venus-like planets.
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