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Dr Jake Taylor (he/him)

Schmidt AI in Science Fellow

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Exoplanets and planetary physics

Sub department

  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Research groups

  • Exoplanet atmospheres
  • Exoplanets and Stellar Physics
jake.taylor@physics.ox.ac.uk
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 309
  • About
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I'm a PDRA funded through the John Fell Fund in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics sub-department. As of September 2023, I will be an Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow in the Astrophysics department.

My research focuses on developing and using theoretical models in order to characterise the atmospheres of exoplanets. This is traditionally done in a Bayesian framework, however I am beginning to do this in the context of machine learning. 

When I'm not thinking about the atmospheres of alien worlds, I am talking about them on TikTok! I love to breakdown the results of my own work, as seen from this video about the mysterious exoplanet GJ 1214b.  

As an LGBT+ person in STEM, I believe that visiblity and representation is important. I am a trustee for the charity Pride in STEM, we were one of the driving forces behind LGBT+ in STEM day - this is November 18th every year. I'm the coordinator of the Out Thinkers events that we run, these are events where LGBT+ people in STEM can give a talk about their work in a safe environment surrounded by like-minded people. They provide a great oppotunity to network with other LGBT+ people in STEM and promote their work. Click here to learn more about Out Thinkers and our previous speakers.

Selected publications

Another look at the dayside spectra of WASP-43b and HD 209458b: are there scattering clouds?

ArXiv 2307.08148 (2023)
Jake Taylor, Vivien Parmentier

Awesome SOSS: atmospheric characterization of WASP-96 b using the JWST early release observations

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 524:1 (2023) 817-834
Jake Taylor, Michael Radica, Luis Welbanks, Ryan J MacDonald, Jasmina Blecic, Maria Zamyatina, Alexander Roth, Jacob L Bean, Vivien Parmentier, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Adina D Feinstein, Nestor Espinoza, Bjorn Benneke, David Lafreniere, Rene Doyon, Eva-Maria Ahrer

Impact of variable photospheric radius on exoplanet atmospheric retrievals

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 513:1 (2022) L20-L24

How does thermal scattering shape the infrared spectra of cloudy exoplanets? A theoretical framework and consequences for atmospheric retrievals in the JWST era

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 506:1 (2021) 1309-1332
Jake Taylor, Vivien Parmentier, Michael R Line, Graham KH Lee, Patrick GJ Irwin, Suzanne Aigrain
140637 255336
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