Yoni Brande

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy. Exoplanet weatherman.

I'm a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, working with Prof. Megan Weiner Mansfield on observations of exoplanet atmospheres in both transit and eclipse. I received my PhD in Physics in May 2025 from the University of Kansas, where I worked with Prof. Ian Crossfield observing and modeling exoplanet atmospheres. I spent 2.5 years at NASA Goddard in the Planetary Systems Lab working on exoplanet detection and characterization, and I received my BS in Astronomy from the University of Maryland in 2017.