Ritika Sethi

Ritika is a first year PhD. student at MIT. She grew up in New Delhi, India and graduated from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur with an Integrated Bachelor’s and Master’s in Science with a major in Physics and a minor in Chemistry. Ritika is intrigued by the worlds outside of our Solar system, popularly known as ‘exoplanets’. She studies planetary interiors and atmospheres, orbital dynamics, and demographics of exoplanetary systems. Ritika’s also interested in stellar physics, particularly, gravitational interactions such as tides and resonances in binary stars, stellar activity, star spot evolution and their morphology. When she’s not doing research, she enjoys playing basketball and table tennis.