Amanda Chavez

Amanda is a rising third year PhD student in Astronomy at Northwestern University. She currently works with Dr. Jason Wang and his Big planets: OrBits and Atmospheres (BOBA) Group focused generally on the direct imaging of exoplanets. Amanda is interested in the formation and dynamics of giant exoplanets and contributing to the instruments used to detect and characterize them. Her current research focuses on developing astrometric calibration methods for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument Data Reduction Pipeline. Amanda is also a former GSMI Scholar from the 2021 cohort. She enjoys boxing and reading on the beach in her free time.