Dana Yaptangco

Astrophysics PhD Student

Imperial College London

About Me

I am currently an Astrophysics PhD student at Imperial College London. I am a Fulbright Research Fellow, conducting research at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on characterizing exoplanets: planets outside our solar system. In London, I study stellar variability and am using stellar models to reduce the impact of stellar variability on the study of exoplanet atmospheres.

I previously led a research study at the University of Florida on exoplanet detectability, worked with the Dark Energy Survey at the University of Michigan to assist in matching gravitational waves with their optical counterparts, and have searched for technosignatures—signs of intelligent life—around nearby stars at the University of California, Berkeley.