Current ExoDyn Researchers
Nadja Aldarondo Quiñones
Credentials: BS 2025, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Position title: Graduate Student
Nadja Aldarondo Quiñones's website
Nadja is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research focuses on studying the spin-orbit alignment of stars hosting small planets and plants in multi-planet systems, with a goal of understanding how these systems form and assemble.
Her full list of publications can be found here.
Adam Distler
Credentials: BS 2024, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Adam graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2024 with a B.S. in Mathematics and Astronomy-Physics. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in Astronomy at Harvard University.
Zijun He
Position title: High School Researcher (Madison West High School)
Alyssa Jankowski
Credentials: BS 2024, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Position title: Post-bac Researcher
Joseph Livesey
Credentials: BS 2022, University of Washington
Position title: Graduate Student
I study the formation and evolution of planets, with a particular interest in planetary habitability.
Nicholas Marston
Credentials: BS 2025, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Position title: Post-bac Researcher
Nick graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2025 with Astronomy-Physics, Physics, and Scandinavian Studies majors, and is currently a post-bac researcher. His research is currently split between observational stellar astronomy and exoplanet formation & dynamics.
Devansh Mathur
Credentials: BS 2025, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Position title: Post-bac Researcher
Devansh Mathur is currently a post-bac student studying transit timing variations.
Devansh has one published first-author paper, in which he used REBOUND simulations to test whether hot Jupiters and their inner companions can form in situ.
Eshan Raul
Credentials: BS 2024, University of Michigan
Position title: Graduate Student
Eshan Raul is a Ph.D. student in Astronomy currently studying exoplanet atmospheric characterization, orbital dynamics, and astrochemistry. His research is motivated by a strong interest in planetary habitability and the search for life elsewhere in the Universe.
Eva Stafne
Position title: Undergraduate Researcher (UW-Madison)
Eva is currently focusing on characterizing exoplanetary habitability due to system dynamics. She is a 2025 Sophomore Research Fellow and recipient of the NASA Wisconsin Space Grant.
Nathaniel Tanglin
Position title: Undergraduate Researcher (UW-Madison)
Nathaniel is an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Astronomy-Physics (B.S.) and Science Communications (Cert.). His research interests include planetary habitability, cosmology, and astrobiology. In ExoDyn, Nathaniel is researching how a planet’s abundance of radioactive elements affects its fitness for life. On a personal level, Nathaniel loves Jesus, people, and experiencing life.
Group Alumni
Ella Chevalier
Credentials: BS 2025, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Position title: Graduate Student at UC Berkeley
Tali Khain
Credentials: PhD 2025, University of Chicago
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard
Achintya Krishnan
Credentials: BS 2024, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Position title: Graduate Student
Drew Weisserman
Credentials: BS 2023, University of Michigan
Position title: PhD Student at McMaster University