Biography
| Dr Karalidi received her PhD from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on modeling the spectropolarimetric signal of exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres. Dr Karalidi is also working on mapping exoatmospheres using observational light curves. She spent 4 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona, and 1.5 years at the University of California Santa Cruz before joining UCF as an Assistant Professor in 2019. She became an Associate Professor in 2024. She was part of the team that first reported the existence of banded cloud structures on brown dwarf atmospheres, a result which was published in Science in August 2017. She was also part of the team that first reported the presence of banded structures on a brown dwarf with the help of polarimetry. |
Research Areas
| Modeling and characterization of exoplanetary and brown dwarf atmospheres. Mapping exoatmospheres. Spectropolarimetric modeling and characterization of brown dwarfs and exoplanets.
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Research Opportunities for Students
Various research topics available. Students need to be familiar with coding as most work involves modeling/running codes.
Information on requirements:
Currently accepting: Yes
Graduate: N/A
Undergraduate: Yes
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- Is it Paid? No
- In a lab? No
- Prerequisites: Student should be familiar with coding. Experience with Python or FORTRAN is preferred.
- Learning materials
Publications
Theodora Karalidi – Google Scholar
Zones, spots, and planetary-scale waves beating in brown dwarf atmospheres- Apai, Karalidi et al; Science, Volume 357, Issue 6352, pp. 683-687 (2017).
Aeolus: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Code for Mapping Ultracool Atmospheres. An Application on Jupiter and Brown Dwarf HST Light Curves – Karalidi et al; The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 814, Issue 1, article id. 65, 17 pp. (2015)
Modeled flux and polarization signals of horizontally inhomogeneous exoplanets applied to Earth-like planets; Karalidi et al; Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 546, id.A56, 12 pp (2012)
Looking for the rainbow on exoplanets covered by liquid and icy water clouds; Karalidi et al; Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 548, id.A90, 13 pp. (2012)
