Lauren Michelle Weiss head shot

NSF Graduate Student Fellow, UC Berkeley

About

I am a second-year graduate student at UC Berkeley. I am working with Geoff Marcy to characterize exoplanets and binary stars. I also write for Astrobites, the astro-ph reader's digest.

You can see my CV here.

First-Author Papers

"The Mass of KOI-94d and a Relation for Planet Radius, Mass, and Incident Flux." ApJ 2013 (accepted).

Here is a complete list of my publications (refereed papers and conference proceedings, courtesy of the Harvard Astronomical Database) here.

Talks

"The KOI-94 System and a Relation for Exoplanet Radius, Mass, and Incident Flux." Exoplanets in Multi-Body Systems in the Kepler Era. Aspen, CO. Feb. 11, 2013.

"The Mass of KOI-94d and a Relation for Exoplanet Radius, Mass, and Incident Flux." AAS 221. Long Beach, CA. Jan. 10, 2013.

The poster I presented at the 220th meeting of the American Astronomy Society is here.

Science Communication and Outreach

I am an author and the Chair of the Editorial Board for , 2011-present.

I co-hosted and edited , a University of Cambridge astronomy podcast, from 2010-2011.

Fun Fact: I recently completed the XKCD up-goer five challenge by using only the 1,000 most commonly used words to describe my research. You can check it out here.