Diana Dragomir

Diana Dragomir received her B.Sc. degree in Honours Physics and M.Sc. degree in Physics from McGill University, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. She obtained her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of British Columbia in 2013. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT)/UC Santa Barbara, and at the University of Chicago. She is currently a Hubble Fellow at the MIT Kavli Institute. Diana studies exoplanets of all kinds, but with a focus on exoplanets smaller than Neptune and orbiting bright, nearby stars. Such systems are our best chance for improving our knowledge of small planets outside the Solar System. Ultimately, Diana aims to understand the physical properties and formation of these exoplanets, and how these depend on the planets' orbital parameters and the properties of the host stars. In her spare time, Diana enjoys traveling, photography, reading, cooking, yoga and outdoor sports.