{"id":9,"date":"2024-02-03T20:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T01:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T23:19:53","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Laura, and I&#8217;m a third year PhD student in the Astronomy Department at BU. I&#8217;m working with Professor Chuanfei Dong to study the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets via magetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment70\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment70\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lrchin\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_7341_Original-e1764625646839-1024x585.jpg\" alt=\"Laura presenting a poster at the ERES X Symposium at Princeton University.\" width=\"660\" height=\"377\" class=\"wp-image-70 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_7341_Original-e1764625646839-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_7341_Original-e1764625646839-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_7341_Original-e1764625646839-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_7341_Original-e1764625646839-1536x878.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/files\/2025\/12\/IMG_7341_Original-e1764625646839-2048x1171.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ERES X Symposium poster session at Princeton University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My research interests are centered around what makes an (exo)planet <em>habitable<\/em>, which is defined as the ability to host liquid water on its surface. In particular, I am interested in determining what kinds of planets are most likely to have <em>atmospheres<\/em>, which vastly improve prospects for habitability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Laura, and I&#8217;m a third year PhD student in the Astronomy Department at BU. I&#8217;m working with Professor Chuanfei Dong to study the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets via magetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation. My research interests are centered around what makes an (exo)planet habitable, which is defined as the ability to host liquid water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hello!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/lrchin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}