Welcome! My name is Luke Bouma, and you have found my research website.

I am an astronomer and physicist, and I am currently a Carnegie postdoctoral fellow at the Observatories in Pasadena.

My main research topic is planets that orbit other stars — exoplanets. Exoplanet science is in a golden age of discovery, fueled by ever-more sensitive telescopes and ever-more clever data processing techniques.

I am especially interested in exoplanet origins and the star-planet connection. What processes produced the exoplanets that we see today? In what stellar and galactic environments does exoplanet evolution unfold? I tackle these questions using a mix of observational and theoretical tools, many of which are focused on baby planets hundreds of times younger than the Earth.

If you’re curious to learn more about me and my work, then click around!