Laura Rogers
2024-Present
Research Focus: Using polluted white dwarfs to constrain the bulk composition of exoplanetary material from Hubble Space Telescope data
2022-2024
Research Focus: Using polluted white dwarfs to constrain the bulk composition of exoplanetary material
2016-2022 Thesis Title: Observational insights into White Dwarf Planetary Systems
Supervisors: Dr Amy Bonsor, Dr Simon Hodgkin and Prof. Mark Wyatt
MSci in Physics (2012-2016)
Grade: First
Research Project: Red, Green and Blue Galaxies Near Clusters
Supervisors: Prof. Steven Phillipps and Prof. Malcolm Bremer
My ORCID page contains a full up to date list of all publications: 0000-0002-3553-9474
Alternatively, the following ADS library contains a list of all publications (updated: 10/06/2025): ADS Library
FLASH Talk: NOIRLab, Tucson (April 2025)
Gemini North Talk: Gemini North (March 2025)
Colloquium: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (March 2025)
Know Thy Star Know Thy Planet 2: Caltech, online (February 2025)
Exoplanet Seminar, Institute of Astronomy: University of Cambridge (December 2024)
UK Exoplanet Meeting: University College London (November 2024)
Wednesday Seminar, Institute of Astronomy: University of Cambridge (November 2024)
Review Talk at UKI Discs Meeting: University of Warwick (September 2024)
Astronomy Seminar: University of Montreal (September 2024)
Dust Devils Conference: Tucson (March 2024)
LCLU annual Science Day: University of Cambridge (March 2024)
Seminar: University of Sheffield (March 2024)
Astrophysics Talk: University of Birmingham (February 2024)
Seminar: Imperial University, London (October 2023)
Astronomy Seminar: University of Warwick (March 2023)
UK Exoplanet Meeting: UCL, London (August 2023)
CCA Stars & Compact Objects group meeting: Flatiron, New York (July 2023)
Astronomy Seminar, University of Warwick: Warwick (March 2023)
Joint Exoplanet Seminar, University of Cambridge Cambridge (January 2023)
EuroWD, University of Tubingen Germany (August 2022)
Highlight Talk: UK Exoplanet Meeting University of Edinburgh (September 2022)
Rocky Worlds II, University of Oxford Oxford (July 2022)
Colloquium, University of Leicester online (June 2022)
Monday Science Seminar, University of Wisconsin online (April 2022)
Planetary Lunch Seminar, MIT online (March 2022)
STSci Exoplanets, Star and Planet Formation Seminar Series, STSci online (February 2022)
Brown Bag Lunch Talk, MIT Kavli Institute: online (November 2021)
Wednesday Seminar, Institute of Astronomy: University of Cambridge (October 2021)
Summer workshop on white dwarfs and related objects: University of Warwick, Virtual Meeting (July 2021)
Cambridge exoplanet and life day, University of Cambridge: online (June 2021)
STScI Symposia: Towards the Comprehensive Characterization of Exoplanets, STScI: online (April 2021)
UK Exoplanet Meeting: online (April 2021)
South East Exoplanet Meeting London (December 2019)
IAU 357 Symposium: White Dwarfs as probes of fundamental physics and tracers of planetary, stellar & galactic evolution: Hilo, Hawaii (October 2019)
Seminar at Gemini North Hilo, Hawaii (November 2019)
Seminar at ESO Santiago Chile (April 2019)
Colloquium at Gemini South La Serena, Chile (April 2019)
Seminar at ESO Garching Germany (June 2017)
NA62 CERN collaboration meeting Ferrara, Italy (September 2014)
"Seven White Dwarfs Eating Planetesimals" IoA 50th Anniversary Conference (July 2024)
"Planetary Abundances for White Dwarfs with Gas Discs" UK Exoplanet Meeting, University of Birmingham (April 2024)
"Planetary Abundances for White Dwarfs with Gas Discs" Chemical and Dynamical Constraints on Planet Formation, GRC (June 2023)
"Planetary Abundances for White Dwarfs with Gas Discs", Exoplanet Systems and Stellar Life Cycles, Aspen Center for Physics (March, 2023)
"Near-infrared variability in dusty white dwarfs: tracing the accretion of planetary material", Exoplanets III, Virtual Meeting (July, 2020)
"Near-infrared variability in dusty white dwarfs: tracing the accretion of planetary material", Rocky Worlds: from the Solar System to Exoplanets, Cambridge, UK (January, 2020)
"Infrared Variability In Dusty White Dwarfs", Poster at the Exo-comets Workshop, Lorentz Centre (May, 2019)
"Infrared Variability In Dusty White Dwarfs", Poster at the UK Exoplanet Meeting, St Andrews (March, 2017)
Python, C and C++, LaTeX, Linux/UNIX, TOPCAT, HTML (beginner)
Masters student advisor: University of Cambridge (2022-2024)
Undergraduate Lecturer: Introduction to Research Computing: University of Cambridge (2023, 2024)
Postgraduate Lecturer: Introduction to Computing: University of Cambridge (2022, 2023, 2024)
Summer student advisor: University of Cambridge (2023, 2024)
Supervisor: University of Cambridge, Supervised Part II Astronomy course: "Stellar structure and evolution" (2021)
Assisted with supervising summer students, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (summer 2021)
Supervisor: University of Cambridge, Supervised Physics 1A Mechanics at Jesus College (2017)
TON Young Women's Gathering: Astronomy activities and stargazing (May 2025)
Talk: "Probing exoplanetary composition using white dwarf stars", Kitt Peak Docents Monthly Meeting (May 2024)
Talk: "Dead Planets around Dead Stars", Astronomy on Tap: Tucson (April 2024)
Sun Space Art at the Cambridge Science Festival, University of Cambridge (March 2024)
International Women's Day: co-organised events for high school students (2023, 2024)
Assisted with supervising summer students, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (summer 2021)
Talk: "Dead planets around dead stars", Knowle Astronomy Society (February 2024)
Talk: "Dead planets around dead stars", Institute of Astronomy Open Evenings (November 2023)
Make a planet workshop at The Cambridge Science Festival, University of Cambridge, online event (March 2021)
Guest astronomer on "Ask an Astronomer", University of Cambridge, online event (2020)
Talk: "Polluted white dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets", Ely Astronomy Club (December 2019)
Talk: "Polluted white dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets", Cambridge University Astronomy Society (December 2019)
Ran a stall on exoplanets for kids: IOA open day as part of Cambridge Science Festival (March, 2017)
Observing Helper: IOA public open evenings (Winter 2016-2017)
Author of popular science articles: Synapse Science Magazine, University of Bristol (2015-2016)
SOC: Dust, Gas and Planets in Debris Disk Systems: EAS Meeting 2025, University of Cork (June 2025)
SOC: UKI Disc Meeting: University of Warwick (September 2024)
External Expert Reviewer: MSCA postdoctoral program 'IST-BRIDGE' : MSCA, Vienna (2023)
LOC: Rocky Worlds: from the Solar System to Exoplanets: University of Oxford (July 2022)
Referee: MNRAS
Referee:: Nature
Lead of Work Life Balance Focus Group Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2022 - 2024)
Committee member: International Women's Day Committee Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2022 - 2024)
Committee member: Computer Users Committee Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2016 - 2024)
Committee member: Equality and Diversity Committee Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2020 - 2024)
Committee member: Postdoc Committee Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2022 - 2023)
Committee member: Graduate Student Forum Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2016 - 2021)
LOC: Rocky Worlds Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge (January 2020)