Email: jlustigy@uw.edu
VPL Focus: Task E
Bio:
My research revolves around the central theme of extracting physical insights from astronomical observations of terrestrial exoplanets. From the planets in the Solar System we know that planets can be rich with complexity. But like the study of stars, exoplanets are (at best) point sources of light. That is, all light from the planet falls onto a single pixel of a telescope CCD. To learn about the underlying nature of terrestrial exoplanets we must carefully examine that one pixel.