Welcome! I am a Hubble Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My research is focused on making empirical measurements that can help determine the physical conditions of the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disks around young stars. I am particularly interested in mapping the mass distributions in these disks, and trying to relate that information to their evolution and the formation of planets in our Solar System and other exoplanet systems. I primarily use radio interferometers like the SMA (and soon ALMA) to image the gas and dust in these disks at high angular resolution.
Recent Research Highlights
Before working at SAO, I was a graduate student at the
University of Hawaii's
Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu
and an undergraduate at Northwestern
University near Chicago.
Contact Information
- phone: (617)-496-7645
- email: sandrews@cfa.harvard.edu
- mailing address: (map)
60 Garden Street, MS 42
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
