About me
Welcome to my page! My name is Keegan, and I'm a recently graduated Masters student from Leiden University. I have dual French-Australian citizenship, and am fluent in both languages. I completed my undergraduate diploma at the Australian National University (Australia), specialising in Astronomy and Astrophysics, before moving on to complete a Masters degree in Astronomy research at Leiden University (Netherlands).
I specialise in exoplanetary astronomy, particularly in the analysis of transit spectroscopy. To this end, I have completed two separate research projects in this area, one working with Kepler K2 data proving its continued viability as an exoplanet-detecting instrument, and another comparing TESS lightcurves with those retrieved from MASCARA, a set of ground-based observatories, to determine the latter's abilities as a follow-up tool for current and future observations.
I am currently studying a PhD at the Paris Observatory working with Dr. Coralie Neiner, studying the magnetic fields around Delta Scuti stars. We are using spectropolarimetric data from NeoNarval and ESPaDOnS to characterise and model the field, as well as its structure at the surface, and speculate as to its origin.
I specialise in exoplanetary astronomy, particularly in the analysis of transit spectroscopy. To this end, I have completed two separate research projects in this area, one working with Kepler K2 data proving its continued viability as an exoplanet-detecting instrument, and another comparing TESS lightcurves with those retrieved from MASCARA, a set of ground-based observatories, to determine the latter's abilities as a follow-up tool for current and future observations.
I am currently studying a PhD at the Paris Observatory working with Dr. Coralie Neiner, studying the magnetic fields around Delta Scuti stars. We are using spectropolarimetric data from NeoNarval and ESPaDOnS to characterise and model the field, as well as its structure at the surface, and speculate as to its origin.
