Emily Sandford

Astronomer at Leiden University. Interested in exoplanet and brown dwarf interiors, transiting exoplanets, stellar and solar activity, and nonlinear dynamics and chaos, particularly phase space reconstruction of experimental observations.

email: sandford [at] strw [dot] leidenuniv [dot] nl

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

What can we learn about the dynamics of a star from a 1D light curve?

Planetary Linguistics

What can natural language processing teach us about planetary systems?

Kepler Multiplicities

How can we explain the multiplicities of Kepler systems most simply?

Shadow Imaging

Can we infer the shape of an object from its transit light curve alone?

Single Transits

How can we constrain the period of a planet if we only see it transit once?

Stellar Densities

How precisely can we measure the density of a star from the light curves of its transiting planets?

Kepler Atlas

In 2017, I mentored a team of four high school students through the American Museum of Natural History's Science Research Mentoring Program. Over the course of the school year, we built a 3D interactive atlas of all the Kepler exoplanet discoveries.

Science Writing

I was a staff writer at Astrobites from 2016-2018. Since then, I've written a bit for Sky & Telescope magazine.

Cool Worlds

I'm a regular contributor to the Cool Worlds YouTube channel.