Dominique Segura-Cox
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
- Office Location
- 463 Bausch & Lomb Hall
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Biography
Dominique attended the University of Michigan and received her bachelor's degree in 2011. She completed her PhD in 2017 at the University of Illinois. She went on to hold a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and then became a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas. In 2024, Dominique joined the University of Rochester faculty as an assistant professor.
Research Overview
Dominique Segura-Cox uses observational methods to understand the earliest (Class 0/I) phases of star formation. She primarily focuses on how protostellar disks, the future sites of planet formation, are impacted and altered by material infalling from the larger environment before the central protostar has started fusion. Dominique primarily uses large radio telescope arrays such as ALMA, VLA, and NOEMA in her research.
Dominique is currently leading the Class 0/I portion of the PRODIGE survey, which focuses on the envelopes and disk-envelope transition zones of 32 very young protostars in the Perseus Molecular Cloud using NOEMA's wide-band capability to capture many chemical tracers critical to star formation at once.
Research Interests
- Observational Astronomy & Astrophysics and Star Formation