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Eric Ford

Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics
ExoPlaneteer.

Penn State Centers

Dept. Astronomy & Astrophysics

Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds

Penn State Astrobiology Research Center

Center for Astrostatistics

Institute for CyberScience

About the Ford Exoplanet Group

Contact Info

Publications

Ford Research Group:

Current Advisees:

Former Doctoral Advisees:

  • Dr. Knicole Colon Ph.D. UF 2009 “Characterizing Extrasolar Planets with Multi-Color Photometry”. NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2009–2012; Next position: Postdoctoral associate at University of Hawaii
  • [Dr. Pengcheng Guo] Ph.D. UF 2012 “Orbital Characterization of Multi-Object Exoplanetary Systems with Radial Velocity Observation”. Next position: CloudScape InfoTech.

Former Postdoctoral Advisees:

  • Prof. Aaron Boley. Next position: Assitant Professor at University of British Columbia.
  • Dr. Sourav Chatterjee. Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow Northwestern University
  • Dr. Althea Moorhead. Next position: Princeton Consultants.
  • Dr. Mathew Payne. Next position: Postdoctoral associate at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Prof. Darin Ragozzine. Next position: Assistant Professor at Florida Institute of Technology.
  • Dr. Dimitri Veras. Next position: Postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge University.