Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. in Astrophysics — University of California, Berkeley (expected 2026)
  • M.A. in Astrophysics — University of California, Berkeley (2022)
  • B.S. in Physics, Magna Cum Laude — University of Maryland, College Park (2020)
  • B.S. in Astronomy, Magna Cum Laude — University of Maryland, College Park (2020)

Research Appointments

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow — Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (2020 - )
  • Undergraduate Researcher — Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park (2017 - 2020)
  • NSF REU Intern — Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (2019)
  • Undergraduate Researcher — Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2018)
  • Undergraduate Researcher — Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago (2017)

Refereed Publications

First Author

  1. Harada, C.K., Dressing, C.D., Kane, S.R. and Adami Ardestani, B. 2024 Accepted in ApJS. "Setting the Stage for the Search for Life with the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Properties of 164 Promising Planet Survey Targets"
  2. Harada, C.K., Dressing, C.D., Alam, M.K. et al. 2023 AJ 166 208. "Stability and Detectability of Exomoons Orbiting HIP 41378 f, a Temperate Jovian Planet with an Anomalously Low Apparent Density"
  3. Harada, C.K., M.-R. Kempton, E., Rauscher, E., Roman, M., Malsky, I., Brinjikji, M. and DiTomasso, V. 2021 ApJ 909 85. "Signatures of Clouds in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Modeled High-resolution Emission Spectra from 3D General Circulation Models"

Significant Contributions

  1. Desai, A., Turtelboom, E. V., Harada, C.K. et al. 2024 Accepted in AJ. "The TESS-Keck Survey. XVIII. A Sub-Neptune and Spurious Long-period Signal in the TOI-1751 System"
  2. Duck, A., Harada, C.K., Harrell, J., Morris, R.A., Williams, E., Crossfield, I., Werner, M. and Deming, D. 2021 AJ 162 136. "K2, Spitzer, and TESS Transits of Four Sub-Neptune Exoplanets"

Other Publications

  1. Turtelboom, E. V., Weiss, L.M., Dressing, C.D. et al. (including Harada, C.K.) 2022 AJ 163 293. "The TESS-Keck Survey. XI. Mass Measurements for Four Transiting Sub-Neptunes Orbiting K Dwarf TOI-1246"
  2. Malsky, I., Rauscher, E., M.-R. Kempton, E., Roman, M., Long, D. and Harada, C.K. 2021 ApJ 923 62. "Modeling the High-resolution Emission Spectra of Clear and Cloudy Nontransiting Hot Jupiters"
  3. Roman, M.T., M.-R.Kempton, E., Rauscher, E., Harada, C.K., Bean, J.L. and Stevenson, K.B. 2021 ApJ 908 101. "Clouds in Three-dimensional Models of Hot Jupiters Over a Wide Range of Temperatures. I. Thermal Structures and Broadband Phase-curve Predictions"
  4. Vissapragada, S., Knutson, H.A., Jovanovic, et al. (including Harada, C.K.) 2020 AJ 159 278. "Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultra-narrowband Photometry"
  5. Collins, K.A., Collins, K.I., Pepper, J. et al. (including Harada, C.K.) 2018 AJ 156 234. "The KELT Follow-up Network and Transit False-positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS"