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Vedad Kunovac is a Senior Research Fellow in the Astronomy Astrophysics group at the University of Warwick, supported by the Royal Society Newton International Fellowship. His research primarily focuses on the discovery, study, and characterization of exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system. At Warwick, he has collaborated with Dr. David Armstrong on the study of planets in the Neptune desert and with Dr. Heather Cegla on the characterization of orbital architectures of exoplanets affected by stellar variability, particularly through the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. Kunovac earned his PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2021, with a thesis titled 'Obliquities of Stars: A Study of Transiting Exoplanets in Eclipsing Binaries,' supervised by Professor Amaury Triaud. He also undertook a brief stint as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Chicago during 2019/2020, working with Professor Daniel Fabrycky and Dr. David Martin on the characterization of low-mass eclipsing binaries. His postdoctoral work at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ, focuses on the orbital alignments of mini-Neptunes using the next-generation extreme precision radial velocity spectrograph (EXPRES).
University of Warwick • Coventry, England
Conducting research on exoplanets supported by the Royal Society Newton International Fellowship.
Lowell Observatory • Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Worked on the orbital alignments of mini-Neptunes using advanced spectrograph techniques.
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