About Me

Education:
Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences - University of Arizona (Anticipated 2027)
Advisors: Prof. Kevin Wagner and Prof. Daniel Apai

M.S. in Planetary Sciences - University of Arizona (2025)
Advisors: Prof. Kevin Wagner and Prof. Daniel Apai

B.A. in Astrophysics & B.A. in Planetary Science - University of California, Berkeley (2022)
Advisors: Dr. Tom Esposito and Prof. Paul Kalas

Research Interests: Modeling Collisional Processses in Debris Disks; High-contrast Imaging of Debris Disks and Extrasolar Planets

Publications: NASA/ADS Library

Research

Project 1 Image

Forecasting Catastrophe: Constraints on the Fomalhaut Main Belt Planetesimal Population from Observed Collisional Remnants


Avsar et al. (2026), In Review

Project 2 Image

A Search for Collisions and Planet–Disk Interactions in the Beta Pictoris Disk with 26 Years of High-precision HST/STIS Imaging


Link to Avsar et al. (2024)

Community

Teaching:
Graduate Teaching Assistant - University of Arizona
ASTR/PTYS 206: Exploring Our Solar System

Undergraduate Student Instructor - University of California, Berkeley
ASTRON C10: Introduction to General Astronomy

Outreach:
Data Analyst - Unistellar (2021-2022)

I worked on the exoplanet transit team at Unistellar conducting data reduction and reduction pipeline development for citizen astronomers observing transits with their eVscopes.