Steph Sallum
Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine
Research Focus
About Steph
I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UC Irvine. I study planet formation directly with high resolution imaging and interferometry. I develop and apply interferometric techniques on adaptive-optics corrected telescopes, and use them to image young stars and protoplanetary disks. This approach allows us to probe smaller angular separations than “traditional” imaging techniques, expanding the parameter space for exoplanet and disk detections. I’m also involved in exoplanet imaging instrument development as the Project Scientist for the Keck/SCALES integral field spectrograph, and as a member of the TMT/Planetary Systems Imager team.
UCI Website: https://www.physics.uci.edu/node/13969
Research Website: www.stephsallum.space
Honors
2017-2020 - NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship
2017-2020 - UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship
2014 - NOAO Project Astro Partnership of the Year
2013-2016 - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
University of California, Santa Cruz, 09/2017 - 07/2020
Ph.D.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona, 08/2017
Bachelor's
Physics; Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 06/2012
