Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi
Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at Amherst College investigating the formation of giant planets and brown dwarfs.
Research
The chemical composition of giant planets and brown dwarfs sets additional constraints on their formation. I study the atmospheres of brown dwarfs to identify hidden companions, detect variability, and obtain compositions with retrievals.
I analyze large samples of low mass stars and brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood to obtain statistically robust measurements of their multiplicity population statistics.
I am interested in any and all gravitaionally bound systems.
Education
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About Me
I am an observational and computational astronomer, originally from Lima, Peru. I earned my BS in Physics at MIT and my PhD at UC San Diego. I enjoy cooking (and eating), traveling, playing the guitar, and knitting. I speak Spanish, English, French, and Python.