Astronomer at the University of Virginia

I am a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Sagan Fellow at the University of Virginia and a member of the Virginia Initiative on Cosmic Origins consortium. Previously, I completed my PhD in astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard University and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, working with Karin Öberg and Qizhou Zhang. My research focuses on the chemistry of star and planet formation. I use high spatial resolution observations from (sub-)millimeter interferometers such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Submillimeter Array (SMA), and Very Large Array (VLA) and optical/NIR facilities like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to characterize the chemical and physical environments in which young planets are forming.

Contact Info

A PDF version of my CV can be found here and a full listing of my publications is available on ADS. You can contact me at:

cjl8rd@virginia.edu
+1 (724) 493-0763

Department of Astronomy
University of Virginia
530 McCormick Road, P.O. Box 400325
Charlottesville, VA 22904
United States of America