Emily Gilbert

Emily’s (she/her/hers) work focuses on the detection and characterization of exoplanets orbiting low mass stars using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. She received her Sc.B. in Astrophysics from Brown University. At Brown, Emily was one of the founding members and a leader of the Brown CubeSat Team (now Brown Space Engineering), working on the smallest, EQUiSat. Emily spent a year at Goddard doing preparatory science for Roman Space Telescope. She then worked at Planet as an Image Quality Analyst on their imaging team working to process and analyze data from their fleet of Earth-imaging satellites. Emily went to the University of Chicago for graduate school and completed her research with scientists at the Adler Planetarium and the TESS team at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center. For her dissertation, Emily used TESS data to detect and characterize exoplanets orbiting M dwarf stars. Emily focused on the TOI-700 system, including the small, habitable zone planet, TOI-700 d, as well as active stars. She is continuing her work on TOI-700, planet habitability, and stellar activity as a part of her postdoctoral research at JPL.

https://emilygilbert.github.io/