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EMPLOYMENT
August 2022 - current
Flatiron Research Fellow (3 years) /
Henry Norris Russel Fellow (3 years)
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Joint fellowship 6 year fellowship between the Center for Computational Astrophysics and Princeton University.
Centre For Computation Astrophysics, NYC, USA
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Jun 2018- Sep 2018
Assistant Research Scientist
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Researching the evolution of comet 96P/Machholz 1.
University of Maryland College Park, USA
Jun 2017- Aug 2017
Astrophysics esearcher
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Analysis of data of comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux and 41P/Tuttle-Giocobini-Kresak. Occasional nightly observing, lightcurve analysis, and modelling of the rotation period.
Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
Assistant Conference Organiser and Graphic Designer
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Assisting with the organisation of the UBS conference on Global Violence Prevention at Kings College Cambridge.
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
University of Cambridge, UK
Sep 2012 - Sep 2016
Consultant product Information Manager
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Product information manager at a large company. Experience in enterprise coding and in change of the management of a team of six.
Vetrag AG, Zurich, Switzerland
EDUCATION
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
PhD Astrophysics
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Thesis title: The discovery and characterisation of exoplanets in TESS with the help of citizen science.
Supervision: Professor Suzanne Aigrain and Professor Chris Lintott.
University of Oxford, UK
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
Integrated BSc and MPhys Physics and Astrophysics
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Grade: First Class honors.
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Masters project: Determining the Nature of the Double Peaked Emission Lines in a nearby ULIRG AGN under the supervision of Professor Clive Tadhunter (University of Sheffield).
University of Sheffield, UK
Sep 2016 - May 2017
BSc year abroad in the US
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Bachelor project: The Rotation and Other Properties of Comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux under the supervision of Professor Matthew Knight.
University of Maryland College Park, USA
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed
Refereed first author
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Eisner, N. L., Johnston, C., Toonen, S., Frost, A. J. et al. Planet Hunters TESS IV: A massive, compact hierarchical triple star system TIC 470710327. MNRAS, 511, 4710-4723, 2022.
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Eisner, N. L., Nicholson, B., Barragán, O., Aigrain, S., Lintott, C., et al. Planet Hunters TESS III: Two transiting planets around the bright G dwarf HD 152843. MNRAS, 505(2), 1827-1840, 2021.
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Eisner, N. L., Barragán, O., Lintott, C., Aigrain, S., Nicholson, B., et al. Planet Hunters TESS II: Findings from the first two years of TESS. MNRAS, 501(4), 4669, 2021.
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Eisner, N.L., Lintott, C. and Aigrain, S. LATTE: Light Curve Analysis Tool for Transiting Exoplanet. JOSS, 5(49), 2020.
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Eisner, N. L., Barragán, O., Aigrain, S., Lintott, C., Miller, G. et al. Planet Hunters TESS I: TOI 813, a subgiant hosting a transiting Saturn-sized planet on an 84-day orbit. MNRAS, 494(1), 750, 2020.
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Eisner, N. L., Knight, M.M., Snodgrass, C., Kelley, M.S.K., Fitzsimmons, A., and Kokotanekova, R. Properties of the Bare Nucleus of Comet 96P/Machholz 1. AJ, 157(5), 186, 2019.
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Eisner, N., Murray, A.L., Eisner, M. & Ribeaud, D. A practical guide to the analysis of non-response and attrition in longitudinal research using a real data example. International Journal of Behavioural Development. 43(1), 24, 2018.
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Eisner, N., Knight, M.M. & Schleicher, D.G. The Rotation and Other Properties of Comet 49P/Arend–Rigaux, 1984–2012. AJ, 154(5), 196, 2017.
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Refereed contributing author
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Mann, C.R., Lafrenière, D., Dragomir, D., Quinn, S.N., Tanetal (including Eisner, N.L.) Validation of TOI-1221b, awarm sub-Neptune exhibiting TTVs around a Sun-like star. ApJ, In press.
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Heitzmann, A., Zhou, G., Quinn, S. N., Huang, C. X., Dong, J., et al. (including Eisner, N. L.) TOI-4562 b: A highly eccentric temperate Jupiter analog orbiting a young field star. ApJ, In press
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Malik, S., Eisner, N. L., Lintott, and C., Gal., Y. Discovering Long-period Exoplanets using Deep Learning with Citizen Science Labels. NeurIPS, in press.
Beck, P.G., Mathur, S., Hambleton, K., GarcÃa, R.A., Steinwender, L., Eisner, N. L., et al., 99 new oscillating red-giant stars in binary systems with NASA TESS and NASA Kepler identified from the SB9-Catalogue. A&A, 667, A31, 2022.
Andresson, A. M, Fender, R., Lintott, C. J., Williams, D.R.A., Driessen, L.A., et al. (including Eisner, N. L.) Serendipitous discovery of radio flaring behaviour from a nearby M dwarf with MeerKAT. MNRAS. MNRAS, 513(3), 3482, 2022.
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Barragán, O., Armstrong, D. J., Gandolfi, D., Carleo, I., Vidotto, A. A., et al. (including Eisner, N. L.) The young HD 73583 (TOI-560) planetary system: Two 10-M⊕ mini-Neptunes transiting a 750-Myr-old, bright, and active K dwarf. MNRAS.MNRAS, 514(2), 1606, 2022.
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Grunblatt, S. K., Saunders, N., Sun, M., Chontons, A., Soares-Furtado, M., Eisner, N. L. et al. TESS Giants Transiting Giants II: The hottest Jupiters orbiting evolved stars. AJ, 163(3), 120, 2022.
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Dalba, P. A., Kane, S. R, Dragomir, D. Villanueva Jr. S., Collins, K. A. et al. (including Eisner, N. L.) The TESS-Keck Survey. VIII. Confirmation of a Transiting Giant Planet on an Eccentric 261-day Orbit with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope. AJ, 163(2), 61, 2022.
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Holt, C.E., Knight, M.M., Kelley, M.S., Ye,et al. (including Eisner,N.L.) .Surface properties of near-sun asteroids. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(8), 187, 2022.
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Prsa, A., Kochoska, A., Conroy, K. E., Eisner, N. L, Hey, D.R. et al., TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short cadence observations of 4584 eclipsing binaries in Sectors 1. ApJS, 258(1), 16, 2022.
Safron, E. J., Boyajian, T.S. and Eisner, N. L. The SATCHEL pipeline: A general tool for data classified through citizen science. MNRAS, 512(3), 3972, 2022.
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Veselin K. B., Orosz, J. A., Feinstein, A. D., Welsh, W. F., Cukier, W., et al. (including Eisner, N. L.) TOI-1338: TESS’ First Transiting Circumbinary Planet. AJ, 159(6), 253, 2020.
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Gilbert, E. A., Barclay, T., Schlieder, J. E., Quintana, E. V., Hord, B. J., et al. (including Eisner, N. L.) First Habitable Zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I: Validation of the TOI-700 System. AJ, 160(3), 116, 2020.
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Schleicher, D. G., Knight, M.M., Eisner, N. L. and Thirouin, A. Gas Jet Morphology and the Very Rapidly Increasing Rotation Period of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák. AJ, 157(3), 108, 2019.
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Research Notes and Conference proceedings
Eisner, N. L., Pope, B. J. S., Aigrain, S., et al., A Ghost in the Toast: TESS Background Light Produces a False “Transit” Across τ Ceti. RNAA, 3(10), 2019.
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SELECTED TALKS
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CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS / SEMINARS
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Exoplanet review talk at the TASC conference, Hawai’i, 2023
NASA Citizen Science conference, talk and panel discussion, 2023
Aspen winter conference on evolved stars and planets, Aspen, 2023
Open University Colloquium, Milton-Keynes, UK, 2022
National Astronomy Meeting, Warwick, UK, 2022
ÖAE/IAU/NAEC, “Schule und Weltraum 2022” symposium, Vienna, Austria (in German), 2022
NASA citizen science seminar, virtual, 2022
Exoplanet Seminar, Princeton University, 2021
Astrophysics Seminar, Villanova University, 2021
The University of Queensland Physics Seminar, virtual, 2021
JPL Exoplanet Seminar, 2021
TESS Science Conference II, virtual, 2021
European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, virtual, 2021
NASA CitSci talk and panel discussion, NASA headquarters, 2021
UKEXOM conference, Birmingham, UK, 2021
Aarhus University colloquium, Aarhus, Denmark, 2021
KU Leuven departmental colloquium, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2021
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Exocoffee seminar, Heidelberg, Germany, 2021
American Museum of Natural History, NYC, USA, 2020
SPIMAX colloquium, University of Oxford , Oxford, UK, 2020
High Energy and Astrophysics Laboratory (HEPAC), virtual, 2020
Women in Physics, University of Bath, UK, 2019
Oxford Exoplanet Meeting III, University of Oxford, UK, 2019
TESS Science Conference I, MIT, Boston, USA, 2019
Single transit event panel discussion TESS Science Conference I, MIT, Boston, USA, 2019
American Museum of Natural History, NYC, USA, 2019
Undergraduate Awards conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2017
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OUTREACH
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Astronomy on Tap, Cradle of Aviation Museum, NY, 2023 (link)
Secret Science Club talk, NYC, 2022 (link)
Ladies at Space, Leuven, Belgium, 2022, (link)
Belgium Space Week, Leuven, Belgium, 2022
Cheltenham Science Festival panel discussion, Cheltenham, UK, 2021
Open Science Study day talk, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2021
NASA CitSciCon talk, NASA headquarters, 2021
Bath amateur astronomers group outreach talk, 2021
Online video on promoting citizen science and Planet Hunters TESS via NASA (link)
NASA reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ online event to answer questions about citizen science and ongoing NASA research
New Renaissance Day, Oxford, UK
‘The crowd & the Cosmos’ book launch, Wig & Pen, Oxford, UK
Science and Media Museum, National Science Festival, Bradford, UK
University of Oxford, Stargazing Live Event, Oxford, UK
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SELECTED PRESS
Oct 2022
Jun 2021
Jun 2021
Jun 2021
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May 2021
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Mar 2020
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Dec 2019
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Aug 2019
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Feb 2019
“25 rising stars in Astronomy”
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“Two new gaseous planets found by citizen scientists”
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“Meet The 7-Year-Old Who Helped His Dad Find A New Planet”
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“Citizen Scientists Discover Two Gaseous Planets around a Bright Sun-like Star”
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“NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Space Telescope Needs Your Help Finding New Worlds”
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“Quarantined Scientists Are Turning the Internet Into Their Laboratory”
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“TOI 813b: Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Found Orbiting Subgiant Star”
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“Citizen Scientists Are Helping Find Alien Planets in NASA’s TESS Data”
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“The Importance of Citizen Science” Swiss radio DRS1 (in German)"
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HONORS & ACADEMIC
AWARDS
2022
RAS Michael Penston Thesis Prize 2022
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Second place out of hundreds of applicants for best overall thesis submitted in 2022.
2018 - 2021
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Curriculum includes: software engineering, statistics (Bayesian methods, gaussian processes, missing information), machine learning, scalable programming and data management and time series analysis.
2018
Tom Kaiser Award in Astronomy
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For best overall student taking a program of study in Astronomy.
2017
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Highly Commended for the International Undergraduate Award in Mathematics & Physics
2016
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Hicks Prize
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For best overall performance by a student on a dual undergraduate program that includes the study of Physics or Astronomy.
2016 and 2018
Award for Outstanding Graphical Presentation in Physics or Astronomy
SELECTED OBSERVING
PROGRAMS/EXPERIENCE
Rapid characterization of a bright transiting two-planet system discovered by citizen scientists in TESS data
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TNG/HARPS (4.5 hrs)
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OPTICON: Follow-up of Candidate Transiting Planets Discovered by Citizen Scientists in TESS Data
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LCO 1m/NRES (57 hrs), LCO 0.4m/SBIG (100 hrs), LCO 1m/SINISTRO (20 hrs), OHP/SOPHIE (3 n)
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NOAO: Follow-up of Candidate Transiting Planets Discovered by Citizen
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CT-1.5m/CHIRON (4 n)
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OPTICON: Follow-up of Candidate Transiting Planets Discovered by Citizen Scientists in TESS Data
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LCO 1m/NRES (50 hrs), LCO 0.4m/SBIG (80 hrs), LCO 1m/SINISTRO (10 hrs)
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NOAO: Follow-up of Candidate Transiting Planets Discovered by Citizen Scientists in TESS Data
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CT-1.5m/CHIRON (4.8 n)
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2019B (GS-2019B-FT-103): Towards Validating the Long Period Planet Hunters TESS Planet Candidates with 'Alopeke and Zorro
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Gemini/Zorro and ‘Alopeke (1.6 hrs)
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2019A (GS-2019A-DD-109): Towards Validating the Long Period Planet Hunters TESS Planet Candidates with 'Alopeke and Zorro
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Gemini/Zorro (40 mins)
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HST: The Nucleus of comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak
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HST (10 orbits of Cycle 25)
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SOAR Telescope (2 n)
TNG/HARPS (6 n)
​Discover Channel Telescope, Lowell Observatory (1 n)
Hall telescope, Lowell Observatory (14 n)
DDT (09/2020)
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