Research

About me: I am a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In 2024, I earned my dual-title PhD in Astronomy and Astrobiology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where I worked with Prof. Vikki Meadows and the Virtual Planetary Laboratory team. During graduate school, I worked to understand how we can use the upcoming extremely large telescopes to search for signs of habitability and life on terrestrial-sized exoplanets in M-dwarf systems using high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy. At NASA, I work on current and future space-based direct imaging missions, studying how exozodiacal dust may impact our ability to characterize an Earth-like world in nearby FGK systems.

Publications: Link to ORCID

Science highlights:

We may be able to use the future ground-based extremely large telescopes to search for the CO2/CH4 biosignature disequilibrium pair on nearby transiting terrestrial exoplanets.
There's More to Life than O2: Simulating the Detectability of a Range of Molecules for Ground-based, High-resolution Spectroscopy of Transiting Terrestrial Exoplanets
Currie et al. 2023a

Exozodiacal debris disks may impede our ability to detect Earth-like exoplanets in direct images. However, applying an optimized high-pass filter may allow us to fit and remove even the worst-case-scenario mean motion resonance structures.
Mitigating Worst-Case Exozodiacal Dust Structure in Direct Images of Earth-like Exoplanets
Currie et al. 2023b

We do not find evidence for iron in the atmosphere of lava planet 55 Cancri e, suggesting the presence of a thin mineral atmosphere.
A Non-Detection of Iron in the First High-Resolution Emission Study of the Lava Planet 55 Cnc e
Rasmussen and Currie et al. 2023

Outdoors

When I'm not doing science, you can find me on (or off) the trails!

At the summit of Mt. Baker after climbing all night. Worth it? Maybe.
Friends celebrating a successful winter summit of Mt. Ellinor in the Olympic Mountains.
Me slogging up Mt. St. Helens in the dead of winter (almost there!)
Looking way too happy for being several hours into a trail race.

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