Joseph Schmitt
Class of 2017
Office:
46 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511
Room Number:
46 HLH 206
Mailing Addresss:
P.O. Box 208101, New Haven, CT 06520-8101
Research:
Exoplanets
Bio:
Joey Schmitt was born in Iowa and grew up in a small town across the river in Illinois. He attended the University of Iowa, where he got his B.S. in astronomy and physics and minored in Latin. While at Iowa, Joey worked on X-ray emissions from blue compact dwarf galaxies. Since coming to Yale in 2012, he has specialized in the discovery, characterization, and statistical analysis of exoplanets.