Cox, Erin
SkAI Assistant Director of Education and Outreach
Dr. Cox was a CIERA Postdoc from 2022 to 2025.
Following her time at CIERA, Dr. Cox became Assistant Director of Education and Outreach at The NSF-Simons SkAI Institute
Dr. Erin Cox is an observational astronomer who studies star and planet formation. Her work focuses on how magnetic fields influence the earliest stages of protostellar collapse (<100,000 yr), and how this affects disk formation. Erin uses high-resolution, dust polarization observations at multiple frequencies to determine the mechanisms responsible for this emission in these high density regions. She has also used ALMA to study the physical characteristics of older, pre-main-sequence disks (~ few Myr) that are likely forming planets.
