Ellen M. Price

Fifth-year graduate student at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

Research

I work with Prof. Karin Öberg (CfA) and Prof. Ilse Cleeves (University of Virginia) on modeling protoplanetary disk chemistry and physics. I also work with Prof. Leslie Rogers (University of Chicago) on rocky planet interior structure modeling. I completed my undergraduate work at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, where I worked with Prof. John Johnson and Dr. Leslie Rogers on exoplanet statistics. I now attend Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, where I am in my fourth year and have been awarded my master's degree. I have presented my work at American Astronmical Society meetings, the Kepler Science Conference II, and the International Astronomical Union's Astrochemistry VII meeting.

Disk modeling

Many existing disk models do not take into account the changing physical conditions of the disk as material accretes towards the star. We seek to develop a self-consistent disk model that couples chemistry and dynamics in an efficient way.

Planet interiors

Ultra-short-period, rocky planets can be pulled into non-spherical shapes by the extreme gravity from their host stars. We seek to model these shapes and the resulting transit light curves.

Contact

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden St., MS-10
Cambridge, MA 02138
ellen.price@cfa.harvard.edu