About

Dr. Eileen Gonzales is a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at Cornell University in the Department of Astronomy and the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences. She uses observational and theoretical techniques to understand the atmospheres of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and directly-imaged exoplanets.

Using atmospheric retrievals, her current work aims to understand cloud properties as well as key chemical processes shaping the formation and evolution of directly-imaged exoplanets and low-gravity brown dwarfs. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the City University of New York Graduate Center where she worked in the Brown Dwarfs in New York City (BDNYC) research group. She received three master's degrees: an MPhil from CUNY, an MA from Hunter College, and an MS from San Francisco State University. She received her BS in Astrophysics from Michigan State University. Dr. Gonzales is also a director and co-founder of Black In Physics, an organization dedicated to revealing a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like.