CURRICULUM VITAE

Employment & Education

Assistant Professor
Lafayette College Department of Physics
2020-Present

NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
2017-2020

Visiting Lecturer in Physics & Astronomy
Colorado College
2019 (Block 6)

MA, PhD in Astronomy
Columbia University
2014, 2017

BA in Astrophysics
Franklin & Marshall College
2012, Summa cum laude

First-author Publications

K2 rotation periods for low-mass Hyads and a quantitative comparison of the distribution of slow rotators in the Hyades and Praesepe.
Douglas, Curtis, Agüeros, Cargile, Brewer, Meibom, Jansen, 2019, ApJ, 824, 83

Poking the Beehive from Space: K2 Rotation Periods for Praesepe.
Douglas, Agüeros, Covey, Kraus, 2017, ApJ, 824, 83

K2 Rotation Periods for Low-mass Hyads and the Implications for Gyrochronology.
Douglas, Agüeros, Covey, Cargile, Barclay, Cody, Howell, Kopytova, 2016, ApJ, 822, 47

The Factory and the Beehive II: Activity and Rotation in Praesepe and the Hyades.
Douglas, Agüeros, Covey, Bowsher, Bochanski, Cargile, Kraus, Law, Lemonias, Arce, Fierroz, Kundert, 2014, ApJ, 795, 161

Student Publications

Using Stellar Rotation to Identify Tidally Stripped Members of the Praesepe Open Cluster.
McDivitt, Douglas, Curtis, Popinchalk, Núñez, 2022, RNAAS, 6, 116

Recent Grants and Fellowships

  • NASA Astrophysical Data Analysis Program, 2021
  • NASA TESS Guest Investigator Grant (Cycle 1), 2018
  • NASA Keck PI Data Award, 2017 and 2018
  • NASA WIYN PI Data Award (NN-EXPLORE), 2017