Research
My research interests include transiting exoplanets, stellar variability, planetary nebulae, and near-Earth asteroids.
TESS-Keck Survey
I am leading the target selection team, and provide radial-velocity observations for the collaboration of more than 30 researchers from 9 US institutions. Our goal is to measure precise masses and orbits of 100 TESS-discovered planets in order to answer big outstanding questions, grouped into planet bulk compositions, orbital architectures, atmospheric compositions, and host stars.
TESS Photometry
Searching for new planetary transits and analyzing stellar variability from TESS photometry. Most of this work was done during the postdoc position at UC Riverside.
K2 Photometry
As a PhD student at Keele University I searched for elusive photometric signals such as starspot crossing events, phase-curve modulations, and pulsations in known planetary systems. To unlock access to this research, I built a pipeline which restored the Kepler-like photometric precision in K2 short-cadence lightcurves.
Near-Earth Asteroids
During the ING observatory internship on La Palma, I collaborated in a survey for recovering and refining the orbital parameters of nearly 300 near-Earth asteroids with previously poorly-known orbits. This work also resulted in finding many new main-belt and even near-Earth asteroids. One of them, 2014 XT14, was named (579890) Mocnik by the IAU in Feb 2022. It's a 1.1km main-belt asteroid with an orbital period of 4.1 years.
Planetary Nebulae
In my MSc research project, I analyzed photometric and spectroscopic data to explain the unusual behavior of the central star of planetary nebula Sh2-71.
