Madyson is a PhD student, but started in the lab as an undergraduate and Chancellor Science Scholar. Madyson holds an NSF GRFP fellowship. She runs the TIDYE survey, which focuses on the demographics of young exoplanets from the TESS mission. She also works on age-dating associations based on stellar variability.

Andy is a PhD student and NSF GRFP fellow. He studies the rotation of young and middle-aged stars. He is interested in how we assign ages to stars from their rotation, how we measure rotation from light curves (e.g., from TESS, Kepler, and K2), and what we can learn about stellar clusters/associations from the rotation of their member stars.

Sarah is a PhD student. She works on deriving fundamental parameters (radius, mass, temperature) of the youngest stars (0–50 Myr) using Gaia and SPHEREx data. She also works on measuring the alignment between the rotation of <5 Myr stars and their protoplanetary disks. The bigger goal is to study if planets can form misaligned, and if so, how frequently.

Isabel is a PhD student (and a former undergrad on the team). She previously worked on transit timing variations in young systems, a method that could help us measure the masses and eccentricities of young planets. More recently, she has been working on the detection of planetary atmospheres from ground-based high-resolution spectra.

Mia is a PhD student. We know stars follow a mass-luminosity relation calibrated using astrometric and eclipsing binaries. Mia's work focuses on measuring the activity levels of such calibrators to study the impact of activity, spots, and magnetic fields on the mass-luminosity relation. We refer to this as the activity-mass-luminosity relation.

Ian is an undergraduate. He works on crowded-field photometry and light curve extraction from ground-based data. Specifically, he is working to measure the alignment between IRAS04125+2902A and its wide binary companion. For this, we need a rotation period, which is hard to measure given that the targets are so close (unresolved in TESS) and the companion is so much fainter. Part of this project is also to update the stellar radius and rotational broadening for the companion, which we use to estimate the stellar inclination.

Avery is an undergraduate. She is testing which Gaussian-process kernels work best for modeling the rotational variability of young stars when detrending their light curves. Better models of the star mean better transit fits and more sensitive planet searches.

Lindsey is an undergraduate. She compares detrending methods (Notch, Wotan, GP-match, etc.) to find which work best for which kinds of stars, with the goal of better planet searches in Sco-Cen.

Hannah is an undergraduate. She works on transit timing variations in the young (17 Myr) planetary system HIP 67522bc to measure the masses and eccentricities of the two planets. This includes both dynamical modeling with TTVFast/jnkepler and precision transit-fitting in the presence of strong stellar variability.

Ilakkiya is an undergraduate (Class of 2028) and the newest member of the team. She works on detecting long-period rotators (periods longer than 10 days) with TESS, which is difficult because TESS observes most of the sky in roughly month-long sectors, and on measuring stellar rotation across the greater Orion Complex.