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Meet Jerome de Leon

1) What do you do?        

I am a master student at The University of Tokyo. My research is on finding and characterizing young (Earth-like) exoplanets via direct (e.g. imaging and spectroscopy) and indirect (e.g. transit) methods using an 8-m class telescope called Subaru on top of Mt. Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Our lab’s main goal is to contribute some insight into how some population of planets outside the solar system form and evolve and its implications to the formation models of planets in our Solar system.

2) Where do you work?

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan/Astrobiology Centre, The University of Tokyo in Japan.

3) Tell us about the photos!

[Top:] I don’t have photos of me with the telescope because we usually do remote observing. But here’s my photo first time attending a winter conference abroad in 2012. I didn’t expect that this institute will be my workplace 2.5 years later and perhaps for years to come.

[Bottom:] I like playing basketball, attending meetup events, and organizing events. The latest event I organized was AstroCoffee with Filipino students, constantly encouraging them to do internship and graduate studies abroad.

4) Tell us about your academic career path so far.

Elementary to High School: St. Joseph’s Academy, Quezon Province
Undergraduate: BS Applied Physics: University of the Philippines-Los Baños 
Research studentships: Academia Sinica, Taiwan & The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
MS Astronomy (ongoing): The University of Tokyo, Japan

5) Anything else you’d like to share?

I have few initiatives that I started last year. One is compilation of international and local scholarships for Filipinos, Pinoy Scholarships/Edxplore. You can find it on the web, Facebook, and Android app. Another is tutorial on reproducible (data) science for Filipinos on github (beta). 

I would really appreciate if you can send me information about your scholarship (etc.), and actual/sample research note+data (in blog form if you have it) to be featured in each website. You can contact me by email. Thank you!

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