Dr. Sarah E. Moran
(Exo)planetary Scientist. Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
(Exo)planetary Scientist. Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
I study planets in the Solar System from the gas giants to Pluto, planets around other stars (called exoplanets) from young directly imaged planets to hot Jupiters to rocky worlds, and brown dwarfs (objects slightly too small to be stars) across the spectral sequence. I'm both an atmospheric modeler and a laboratory experimentalist, focusing on the clouds, hazes, and chemistry of other worlds.