Michelle Colantoni

I am a first-year DPhil working with Prof Pat Irwin on multi-wavelength analysis (0.4–5.2 µm) of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter using ArchNEMESIS on Juno/JIRAM, Cassini/VIMS, and JWST/NIRSpec data. I got my Astrophysics undergraduate degree from the University of Hertfordshire, doing my dissertation on parametrising the thermal structure of giant planets and brown dwarfs for use in retrieval studies. Afterwards, I did my Planetary Geosciences master’s degree with the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s programme GeoPlaNet, where I spent five months at the German Aerospace Centre in Berlin working on my dissertation on hydrogen-water phase separation in Neptune-like exoplanets. I am passionate about outreach and public engagement and am keen to take a more active role in this in the department.