Welcome to the Exoplanets group at UNM!

I am an assistant professor who finds and studies the properties of exoplanets.

Address:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of New Mexico
210 Yale Blvd
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Office: PAIS 3226
Email: dragomir at unm.edu

I also very occasionally post on Bluesky as @cabridelle.

News:

  • September 2025 - Dr. David Coria joins UNM Exoplanets group as a postdoctoral researcher
  • August 2025 - UNM hosts 4-day workshop on long-period transiting exoplanets, chaired by Dr. Dragomir
  • July 2025 - Dr. Dragomir receives prestigious NSF CAREER award
  • May 2025 -  Grad student Sarah Stamer wins New Mexico Space Grant scholarship
  • May 2024 - Dr. Dragomir and UNM undergraduate Michael Bess contribute to discovery of first atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet, published in Nature
  • December 2023 - Dr. Dragomir wins EPSCoR RII Track-4 award
  • October 2023 - UNM Exoplanets group help organize annular eclipse viewing event, drawing nearly 4000 attendees
  • September 2023 - Grad student Dominic Oddo receives NASA FINESST award
  • August 2023 - Dr. Zahra Essack joins UNM Exoplanets group as a postdoctoral researcher
  • February 2023 - UNM Exoplanets group receives a NASA TESS Key Project grant
  • December 2022 - Dr. Dragomir contributes to discovery of "water world" exoplanet, published in Nature Astronomy
  • September 2022 - Dr. Dragomir receives UNM's inaugural Ovation Award for research and scholarship