{"id":5,"date":"2019-01-22T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cce\/dr-catherine-c-espaillat\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:04:20","slug":"dr-catherine-c-espaillat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cce\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Catherine C. Espaillat (she\/her)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Welcome!<\/h3>\n

I am an astrophysicist who studies planet formation. Planets form from the building blocks and raw materials in their planetary nurseries, known as protoplanetary disks. To catch planet formation in action, I search for the telltale footprints that actively forming planets leave behind on these protoplanetary disks. I use computer simulations and astronomical observations in my research, working with multi-wavelength data spanning X-ray to radio wavelengths. I am the co-PI of ODYSSEUS<\/a>, an international collaboration of 100+ scientists working on analyzing the HST<\/i> ULLYSES<\/a> dataset and obtaining contemporaneous ground-based data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I received my bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 2003 and earned a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Michigan in 2009. I went on to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and was later awarded the NASA Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship. I joined the Department of Astronomy at Boston University in 2013, where I am currently a Professor. I am a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship and the National Science Foundation\u2019s CAREER award, and I am a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For the past decade, I have been committed to diversity and access in the STEM fields and directed mentoring programs for underrepresented groups in STEM. I am the founding director of the peer-mentoring program LUMA<\/a>, which serves URM women astronomers, physicists, and planetary scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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