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
