Laura D. Vega

Laura Vega is a first-generation college graduate who obtained her bachelor’s degree in physics from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2013. She is a former student of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program, where she earned her master’s degree in physics from Fisk University in 2017 and most recently a PhD in astrophysics from Vanderbilt University. Laura recently started as a Heising-Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and at The University of Maryland-College Park (UMD). Her research focuses on understanding the impact of stellar flares on the habitability of exoplanets, from a variety of red dwarf stars, using a wealth of new and archival data collected from NASA missions such as Swift, TESS, and NICER.