Darin Ragozzine - Associate Professor, BYU Department of Physics and Astronomy

Positions and Education

• 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: Kepler Space Telescope, New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).