Postdoctoral Scholar
- Address:
- ERC 459
- Email:
- rsmith25@uchicago.edu
Background
I obtained my PhD at Queen's University Belfast in July 2023, where my work focused on characterizing binary trans-Neptunian objects in optical and near-IR archival Hubble Space Telescope data. I went on to apply the techniques and HST data analysis to the study of variable stars in archival data of the Andromeda galaxy during my postdoc at NOIRLab's Gemini North Observatory. At UChicago, I am working with Wendy Freedman on measurements of the Hubble constant.
Research
My research interests include variable stars, the cosmic distance ladder and solar system objects.