Lia Corrales
LSA-Astronomy SPiCEs Research Group, University of Michigan
Research Focus
About Lia
Dr. Corrales received her PhD from Columbia University where she was a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow working with Dr. Frits Paerels on dust scattering halos in the interstellar and intergalactic medium. After that she took a postdoctoral position with the Chandra HETG group at MIT, working on software tools and developing techniques for extracting the Chandra high resolution X-ray spectrum from Sgr A*. She received an Einstein Fellowship in 2016, which she took to University of Wisconsin – Madison to work with Sebastian Heinz on dust scattering echoes. Now she is a faculty member at the University of Michigan, where she is translating her expertise in astromineralogy to study aerosols in exoplanet atmospheres, the role of high energy irradiation planetary evolution, and extending exoplanet transmission spectroscopy to shorter wavelengths (UV and X-ray).
Honors
Einstein Fellowship (Chandra X-ray Center)
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
University of Michigan LSA Collegiate Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
Einstein Fellow, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 09/2016 - 08/2018
CXC HETG group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 07/2014 - 08/2016
Ph.D.
Astronomy, Columbia University, 06/2014
Master's
Astronomy, Columbia University, 07/2009
Bachelor's
Physics, Harvey Mudd College, 06/2006
