Welcome! I’m Luke Bouma, a staff scientist at Caltech/IPAC.

I study exoplanets and the stars that host them. What processes produced the planets we see today? In what stellar and galactic environments does planet evolution unfold? What kinds of planets are we still missing? I tackle these questions by discovering young exoplanets, age-dating stars, and building the infrastructure that enables data-driven discovery.

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