Chia-Lung Lin

Chia-Lung Lin

Postdoctoral Research Associate I

I have devoted considerable effort to studying the stellar activity of low-mass stars using data from Kepler/K2, TESS, SDSS, LAMOST, as well as my own observation campaigns since my PhD. My research also includes investigating the gyrochronology of main-sequence stars and exploring the accretion and variability properties of T Tauri stars. In addition, I have developed machine-learning models capable of efficiently detecting stellar flares in light curve data.

After completing my PhD in 2025, I joined the team led by Prof. Daniel Apai as a postdoctoral associate at Steward Observatory. My primary objective is to improve our understanding of the impact of stellar heterogeneity (such as cool spots, hot faculae, and flares) of the low-mass stars on the near-infrared transmission spectra of exoplanet observations with HST and JWST. Ultimately, our goal is to mitigate these stellar contamination effects to uncover the true signatures of exoplanetary atmospheric compositions.