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Originally from San Francisco, California, I moved to the Midwest for my undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, where I majored in Physics with a specialization in Astrophysics. I came back to the West Coast for my advanced studies at UCLA, in the department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences. Outside of planets, my interests include watching baseball (Go Giants!), cooking, and exploring cities via public transportation. I'm a frequent volunteer at <a href="http://gabrielinosprings.com/wpsite/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kuruvungna Springs</a>, a native plants garden near UCLA run by the Tongva people. I am also an avid runner, and I ran the Chicago Marathon in 2016.
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My last name is pronounced "MY-zner" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IPA</a>: 'maɪznər). The first syllable rhymes with "pie". My pronouns are he/him/his.
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<h3>Outreach</h3>
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In addition to studying how planets and their atmospheres form and evolve, I am passionate about sharing my knowledge beyond the scientific community. As an undergraduate, I was President of the <a href="https://astro.uchicago.edu/ras/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ryerson Astronomical Society</a>, the University of Chicago's undergrad-run astronomy club. In grad school, I have TA'ed <a href="https://catalog.registrar.ucla.edu/course/2021/EPSSCI9?year=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EPS SCI 9, Solar System and Planets</a>, in 2019, 2020, and 2021, winning an EPSS Teaching Award in 2020. Below you can find a list of public outreach events I've been a part of.
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<h3>Outreach Activities</h3>
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<li><b>Volunteer</b>, UCLA EPSS Eclipse Viewing Event, October 2023</li>
<li><b>Talk</b>, "Research in Space Fields", <a href="https://www.connect-edu.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ConnectEd Research</a> <a href="https://orl.ucla.edu/studentorg/4896" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Student Organization</a>, February 2022</li>
<li><b>Planetarium Host</b>, <a href="https://astro.ucla.edu/planetarium.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UCLA Planetarium</a>, 2019-2023
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<li>Topics including "Super-Earths" and "Exoplanets"</li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6KL8Q3UFwM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Super-Earths presentation video</a>
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<li><b>Volunteer</b>, <a href="https://www.physicalsciences.ucla.edu/eyu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Exploring Your Universe</a>, 2018-2020</li>
<li><b>Demonstrator</b>, <a href="https://astro.ucla.edu/astronomy-live.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UCLA AstroLive</a>, 2020</li>
<li><b>WISRD Fall Lecture</b>, <a href="https://wisrd.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wildwood School</a>, “Fantastic Trans-Neptunian Objects and What They Tell Us about Our Origin”, November 4th, 2019</li>
<li><b>Letter Writer</b>, <a href="https://prescientist.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Letters to a Pre-Scientist</a>, 2019-2020, 2022-Present</li>
<li><b>Meeting Talks</b>, <a href="https://astro.uchicago.edu/ras/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ryerson Astronomical Society</a>, 2015-2018
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<li>Various topics including “Planetary Atmospheres”, “Pluto”, “Life in the Solar System”, “The James Webb Space Telescope”, and “Planet Formation”, among others</li>
<li>As President (2017-18), organized club activities, including trips for Dark Sky observing and to <a href="https://www.yerkesobservatory.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yerkes Observatory</a>, as well as public observing nights on campus.</li>
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<h3>Service Activities and Undergraduate Research Supervision</h3>
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I have served as a peer reviewer for the <i>Astrophysical Journal</i> and <i>Astrophysical Journal Letters</i>. Between 2020 and 2022, I represented the graduate student body on the EPSS Curriculum Committee. In that time, we overhauled significant portions of the graduate student curriculum, and I provided input on the student perspective to the faculty on these changes. In 2021-2022, I was the research supervisor for UCLA undergraduate Manasa Lakshmi Narasimhan, working on super-Earth atmospheric evolution.
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