Nicholas Saunders

I am a YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. I earned my PhD from the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

My primary research interest is understanding the full lifetime of exoplanets. Currently, I study their evolution by detecting planets around evolved stars and developing methods to better constrain the ages of exoplanet host stars.

Before I arrived in Hawaii, I was a research support scientist at the Kepler/K2 Guest Observer Office at NASA Ames.

For my undergraduate degrees, I attended the University of Washington in Seattle. I earned a B.S. in Astronomy and Physics, and a B.A. in Comparative Literature (with an emphasis on Cinema Studies), and I was a member of the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium.