Leslie Rogers

Associate Professor

Leslie Rogers
Address:
ERC 537
Pronouns:
she, her, hers
Phone:
773-834-2436
Email:
larogers@uchicago.edu
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Background

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012

Research Fields:

  • Exoplanets

Research Groups:

  • Rogers Exoplanets Group

Students:

  • Andrew Neil (graduate/Astronomy & Astrophysics)
  • Jisheng Zhang (graduate/Astronomy & Astrophysics)
  • Fei Xu (graduate/Astronomy & Astrophysics)
  • Andrea Bryant (graduate/Physics)
  • Bridget Haas (graduate/Physics)
  • Aware Deshmukh (undergraduate/Astronomy & Astrophysics)
  • Alysa Rogers (undergraduate/Physics REU)
  • Jessica Liston (undergraduate/Physics REU)
  • Ana Sofia Uzsoy (undergraduate/Leadership Alliance)

Postdocs:

  • Nadia Marounina

Research

Prof. Rogers studies the formation, interior structure, and evolution of exoplanets. Her research aims to deepen the current understanding of the rich physics governing sub-Neptune-size planet interiors, to discover bulk composition trends in the growing census of known exoplanets, and to connect these composition trends back to distinct planet formation pathways. To pursue these goals, Rogers and her group advance numerical models for the interior, evolution, and formation of small exoplanets, and develop statistical frameworks to connect theory and observations.

Selected Publications

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