Sarah Millholland

Professor Sarah Millholland studies a broad range of problems in exoplanetary science. Her research explores the demographics and diversity of extrasolar planetary systems and aims to constrain the physics of planet formation and evolution. She uses a synergistic approach involving analytic theory, numerical simulations, and statistical methods. Prof. Millholland is originally from Madison, Wisconsin. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in physics and applied mathematics from the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 2015. She then spent her first year of graduate school at the University of California Santa Cruz before transferring to Yale University. She received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and obtained her PhD in Astronomy from Yale in May 2020. She then moved to Princeton University, where she was a NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow from 2020-2022. In July 2022, she joined the MIT Physics faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.