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Dr Mei Ting Mak

Croucher Fellow

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Exoplanets and planetary physics

Sub department

  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Research groups

  • Exoplanet atmospheres
marthamak318@gmail.com
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 209g
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I am a Croucher Fellow supported by the Croucher Foundation. Previously, I developed my PhD project at the University of Exeter and was awarded funding through the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund from the Institute of Physics.

My main research focuses on understanding the impact of photochemical haze on the atmospheric dynamics and observability of a wide range of planets, including rocky planets, sub-Neptunes and hot-Jupiters, using the 3D General Circulation Model, the Unified Model developed by the UK Met Office. Currently I am studying how winds can result in asymmetrical distribution of materials within a planet's atmosphere, and how these produce observable differences between the two limbs of the planet in data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Research interests

Exoplanet Atmospheres
Clouds and Hazes
Radiative Transfer
Habitability

Selected publications

Flow-Driven Limb-Asymmetry of Haze Distribution Part I: An Analytical Framework for Predicting the Size Distribution of Photochemical Hazes Across the Two Limbs of hot-Jupiters

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 550, Issue 4 (2026)
Mei Ting Mak, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Nathan J. Mayne, David K. Sing

The impact of different haze types on the atmospheres and observations of hot Jupiters: 3D simulations of HD 189733b, HD 209458b, and WASP-39b

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 542, Issue 3, pp.1873–1900 (2025)
Mei Ting Mak, Denis E Sergeev, Nathan J Mayne, Maria Zamyatina, Maria E Steinrueck, James Manners, Éric Hébrard, David K Sing, Krisztian Kohary

3D simulations of TRAPPIST-1e with varying CO2, CH4, and haze profiles

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 530, Issue 3, pp.2933-2933 (2024)
Mei Ting Mak, Denis E Sergeev, Nathan Mayne, Nahum Banks, Jake Eager-Nash, James Manners, Giada Arney, Éric Hébrard, Krisztian Kohary

3D Simulations of the Archean Earth Including Photochemical Haze Profiles

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 128, Issue 20 (2023)
M. T. Mak, N. J. Mayne, D. E. Sergeev, J. Manners, J. K. Eager-Nash, G. Arney, E. Hébrard, K. Kohary
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