Ellen M. Price University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences

Curriculum vitae

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  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago (Sep. 2025 – present)
  • 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago (Sep. 2021 – Sep. 2025)
  • Graduate student researcher, Harvard University (2015 – 2021)

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard University (May 2021)
  • Master of Arts in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard University (May 2018)
  • Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology (June 2015)

  • Astronomy Department Keto Prize, Harvard University (May 2021)
  • Astronomy Department Pierce Fellow, Harvard University (Sep. 2015)

  • E. M. Price, J. Becker, Z. L. de Beurs, L. A. Rogers, & A. Vanderburg. (2025). A Long Spin Period for a Sub-Neptune-mass Exoplanet. ApJL, 981, 1. [journal link]
  • E. M. Price, E. Van Clepper, & F. J. Ciesla. (2025). Dynamics of Small, Constant-size Particles in a Protoplanetary Disk with an Embedded Protoplanet. ApJ, 979, 1. [journal link]
  • E. M. Price, L. I. Cleeves, D. Bodewits, & K. I. Öberg. (2021). Ice-coated Pebble Drift as a Possible Explanation for Peculiar Cometary CO/H2O Ratios. ApJ, 913, 9. [journal link]
  • E. M. Price & L. A. Rogers. (2020). Tidally-Distorted, Iron-Enhanced Exoplanets Closely Orbiting Their Stars. ApJ, 894, 8. [journal link]
  • E. M. Price, L. I. Cleeves, & K. I. Öberg. (2020). Chemistry Along Accretion Streams in a Viscously Evolving Protoplanetary Disk. ApJ, 890, 154. [journal link]
  • E. M. Price, L. A. Rogers, J. A. Johnson, & R. I. Dawson. (2015). How Low Can You Go? The Photoeccentric Effect for Planets of Various Sizes. ApJ, 799, 17. [journal link]
  • E. M. Price & L. A. Rogers. (2014). Transit Light Curves with Finite Integration Time: Fisher Information Analysis. ApJ, 794, 92. [journal link]

  • E. Van Clepper, E. M. Price, & F. J. Ciesla. (2025). Three-dimensional Transport of Solids in a Protoplanetary Disk Containing a Growing Giant Planet. ApJ, 980, 2. [journal link]
  • F. Dai, A. W. Howard, S. Halverson, J. Orell-Miquel, E. Pallé, H. Isaacson, B. Fulton, E. M. Price, et al. (2024). An Earth-sized Planet on the Verge of Tidal Disruption. AJ, 168, 101. [journal link]
  • A. S. M. Uzsoy, L. A. Rogers, and E. M. Price. (2021). Radius and Mass Distribution of Ultra-short-period Planets. ApJ, 919, 26. [journal link]
  • P. S. Muirhead, J. Becker, G. A. Feiden, B. Rojas-Ayala, A. Vanderburg, E. M. Price, et al. (2014). Characterizing the Cool KOIs. VI. H- and K-band Spectra of Kepler M Dwarf Planet-candidate Hosts. ApJS, 213, 5. [journal link]

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, visiting postdoctoral scholar (2022–2025)
    • Incorporated time-dependent, disequilibrium chemistry into existing hydrodynamics code
    • Leveraged GPU offloading and hierarchical parallelism to improve computational efficiency
  • University of Chicago, postdoctoral fellow (2021–2025)
    • Derived novel, analytic approximations for dynamics of particles suspended in a fluid
    • Modified existing hydrodynamics code to include new physics
  • Harvard University, graduate researcher (2015–2021)
    • Developed novel codes in C and C++ for modeling coupled dynamics and chemistry in protoplanetary disks
    • Authored three first-author, peer-reviewed papers
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, HEDP summer intern (2019)
    • Applied variable transformation techniques to estimation of neutron statistics
    • Explored normalizing flows as a possible alternative to kernel density estimation
  • Space Telescope Science Insitute, summer intern (2014)
    • Optimized the cloud-kepler software with C and Cython
    • Explored normalizing flows as a possible alternative to kernel density estimation
  • Caltech Carolyn Ash SURF Fellow (2013)
    • Obtained spectra of candidate A stars at Palomar Observatory
    • Applied data reduction techniques to confirm host star types
  • National Space Science and Technology Center, Caltech Robert and Delpha Noland Summer Fellow (2012)
    • Translated legacy Fortran code for modeling cosmic ray transport to C
    • Processed simulation data from parameter sweeps to identify model sensitivities