Michelle Colantoni

I am a first-year DPhil working with Prof Pat Irwin on multi-wavelength analysis (0.4–5.2 µm) of Jupiter using ArchNEMESIS on Juno/JIRAM, Cassini/VIMS, and JWST/NIRSpec data. I got my Astrophysics undergraduate degree from the University of Hertfordshire, where I did my dissertation on parametrising the thermal structure of giant planets and brown dwarfs for use in retrieval studies. Following this, I completed a master’s degree in Planetary Geosciences through the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s programme GeoPlaNet. As part of this degree, 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.