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Darin Ragozzine

Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy Research

N482 ESC - Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

Biography

Associate Professor with CFS (Sept 2021 - present); Assistant Professor (July 2016 - Aug 2021); Assistant Professor at Florida Institute of Technology (July 2013 - May 2016); Postdoctoral Research at Harvard Institute for Theory and Computation and University of Florida Astronomy; PhD in Planetary Science from Caltech (2009); Bachelors in Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics from Harvard (2004)

Research Interests

planetary science; orbital dynamics; astrostatistics; exoplanets; solar system small bodies

Teaching Interests

astronomy; planetary science

Education

  • PhD in Planetary Science, Planetary Science , Astronomy & Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology (2009)
  • Masters of Science, Planetary Science , Astronomy & Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology (2006)
  • AB in Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics , Harvard University (2004)

Honors and Awards

  • BYU Early Career Scholarship Award, BYU (2021 - Present)
  • Nominee for Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists, BYU (2021 - Present)
  • CPMS Young Scholar Award 2020, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2020 - 2020)

Memberships

  • International Astronomical Union (2018 - Present)
  • American Astronomical Society (2005 - Present)

Professional Citizenship

  • Editor, Associate Editor, American Astronomical Society Journals (2023 - Present)
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Astronomical Society Journals (2017 - Present)
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Communications (2016 - Present)
  • Committee/Council Member, American Astronomical Society Division for Dynamical Astronomy (2019 - 2022)
  • Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, James Webb Space Telescope (2021 - 2021)
  • Committee/Council Member, Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting 2017 Local Organizing Committee (2016 - 2017)

Courses Taught

Publications

Jackson Steele Denise Catherine Stephens Eric G B Hintz Joseph Ward Moody Darin A Ragozzine Maureen Lyn Hintz

Presentations

Darin A Ragozzine James Conaway