I am interested in directly imaged planets and brown dwarfs, as well as their formation and atmospheres. My research is motivated by the following questions:
How do the outer architecture of extrasolar planetary systems form?
How do free-floating planets and brown dwarfs form in nearby young associations?
What atmospheric physical and chemical processes operate in exoplanets and brown dwarfs and how well do we understand them?
To investigate these questions, I focus on giant planets and brown dwarfs that are either (1) wide-orbit companions to stars, or (2) members of nearby young moving groups and associations, and use their emission spectroscopy to study their atmospheric processes.
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