Darin Ragozzine - Associate Professor, BYU Physics and Astronomy

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Darin Ragozzine

Darin Ragozzine

Associate Professor

Contact

Office Hours

By appointment or as given in syllabus.

Spring 2026 Teaching Schedule

Physics 492R TBA TBA TBA TBA
Physics 498R TBA TBA TBA TBA
Physics 697R 3:00p - 4:50p MTWTh C261 ESC
Physics 699R 12:00p - 12:50p W C465 ESC

Research

Specialty: Planetary Science, Astrophysics, Exoplanets, Astrostatistics

Supervised Theses and Dissertations

Publication List

Professional Bio

Positions and Education

  • Associate Professor, Brigham Young University
  • Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University (2016-2021)
  • Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology (2013-2016)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida (2012-2013)
  • Harvard Institute for Theory and Computation Fellow (2011-2012)
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2011)
  • Ph.D. in Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology (2004-2009)
  • AB in Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard University (1999-2004)

Mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in cutting-edge projects; multiple student-led publications accepted and in preparation.

Science Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on multiple NASA grants. Principal Investigator of multiple Hubble Space Telescope proposals/grants. 

Affiliated with Science Teams of multiple NASA missions and ground-based efforts.