Catherine Clark

Catherine (she/her/hers) is originally from Denver, Colorado. She received her B.S. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, as well as Spanish, from the University of Michigan in 2017. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Astronomy and Planetary Science from Northern Arizona University in 2022. Her work focuses on characterizing the stars and planets in multi-star systems. Specifically, she focuses on low-mass stars. During her PhD, she helped to design, build, test, and commission the Quad-camera Wavefront-sensing Six-channel Speckle Interferometer (QWSSI) for the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope outside Flagstaff, Arizona. Once QWSSI was operational, Catherine led studies of both planet-hosting and non-planet-hosting multi-star systems. As a JPL postdoc, she will concentrate on characterizing planets in multi-star systems using both high-resolution imaging and radial velocity measurements.