Group

Professor Jonathan Fortney

Science Group Curriculum Vitae Models Perspective Other Worlds Lab

Research Group

credit:NASA/JPL

I have had the pleasure to work with a number of outstanding postdocs, grad students, and undergrads since 2008. Here is an overview of these folks, present and past.  Group members and I have advised nearly 50 senior theses in that time. If you are an undergrad looking for a research project or senior thesis work, please email me.


Current Graduate Student Researchers

Yao Tang, modeling the atmospheric escape, interior structure, and evolution of sub-Neptunes

Sagnick Mukherjee, modeling reflected light, polarization signals and thermal emission from cloudy exoplanet atmospheres

Evan Davis, M stars and their planets

Aditya Sengupta, advancing cloud modeling in substellar atmospheres with PICASO

Anna Gagnebin, atmosphere modeling and spectroscopy of water world exoplanets


Current Postdoctoral Researchers


Z. J. Zhang, observations and retrievals of directly imaged planets and brown dwarfs

Yayaati Chachan, planet formation characterization of exoplanetary physics

Benjamin Idini, interior structure of giant planets and icy moons

Brianna Lacy, model atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs

Artem Aguichine, giant planet formation the solar system and exoplanet interior structure


« Current and Former Grad/Postdoc Members »

Current Grads
Current Postdocs
Former Grads
Former postdocs
Yao Tang ZJ Zhang Linfeng Wan (co-advisor) Melodie Kao
Sagnick Mukherjee Yayaati Chachan Callie Hood Paul Dalba
Evan Davis Artem Aguichine (co-adv) Maggie Thompson (co-adv) Naor Movshovitz
Aditya Sengupta (co-advisor) Brianna Lacy Kat Feng Kazumasa Ohno
Anna Gagnebin (co-advisor) Ben Idini Daniel Thorngren Xinting Yu (co-advisor)
Chris Mankovich Josh Krissansen-Totton
Molly Kosiarek (co-advisor) Peter Gao
Mikey Nayak (co-advisor) Natasha Batalha
Caroline Morley Theodora Karalidi
Eric Lopez Ty Robinson
Katie Morzinski (co-advisor) Ian Crossfield
Neil Miller Mike Line
Kevin Moore
Vivien Parmentier
Nadine Nettelmann
Philip Nutzman
Eliza Kempton