Dr. Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi is an assistant professor of astronomy at the Amherst College. Her research focuses on brown dwarfs, especially the formation, evolution and the atmosphere of these objects. [1]
She was born in Lima, Peru, a "country with no professional astronomy". [2] She started college at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and then transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [3] She earned her BS in physics at MIT and her PhD at UC San Diego. [2] She did five years of postdoctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, before accepting an assistant position at the Amherst College. [4] She is a former member of the UC San Diego Cool Star Lab. [5]
Her early research involved low-mass binary stars and brown dwarfs. [6] She was for example the lead author of the discovery of WISE J135501.90-825838.9, which later turned out to be a likely binary of planetary-mass objects with a masses of 11 and 9 MJ. [7] [8] In 2020 she was the lead author of the paper announcing the discovery of WISEA J083011.95+283716.0, which was discovered by volunteers of the backyard worlds project. [9] She also led a paper researching the planets around 14 Herculis. This paper disentangled the mass and inclination of both planets, finding a misalignment in their inclination. [10] [2]
Bardalez Gagliuffi is also interested in improving the science education in her home country Peru. She is one of the co-founder of the CosmoAmautas program, which is an educational program aimed to increase math and science literacy in Peru, as well as increasing interest in astronomy in the country. [3] [11]
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