Daniel is a data-driven dynamicist who develops techniques that fuse data analysis with dynamical theory and simulations to study the evolution, demographics, and orbital architectures of (exo)planetary systems. Daniel was a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute in the Fall of 2025. He earned his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics at Columbia University in 2025. He completed his undergraduate studies in physics with a concentration in astronomy & minors in computer science and comparative media studies at MIT in 2018. Before graduate school, he spent two years as a member of the TESS Science Team at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

At MIT, Daniel will use Gaia astrometry, transit timing variations, and radial velocity observations to study how outer cool gas giants shape the architectures and habitability of planetary systems. By measuring conditional occurrence rates of inner and outer planets and coupling them with dynamical theory and simulations, his research seeks to identify the processes that drive the divergent evolution of gas giants into stable wide-orbit planets, warm, and hot Jupiters, and to ask the unifying question: is the solar system a typical outcome of planetary formation and evolution or an anomalous planetary architecture?