Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher | Queen Mary University of London | 2024-present
- ERC FRIED project: Impact of external irradiation on protoplanetary disk chemistry
- PI: Dr. Thomas Haworth

Education

PhD Astrophysics | University College London | 2020-2024
- Thesis: "Abundance and Distribution of Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks"
- Advisor: Dr. Mihkel Kama

MSc Planetary Science | University College London | 2018-2020
- Thesis: "Impact of Planetary Mass Uncertainties on Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals"
- Advisors: Dr. Quentin Changeat, Dr. Ingo Waldmann

BSc Astrophysics | The Open University | 2009-2017
- Thesis: "The Role of Roche-Lobe Overflow in the Transition of Hot-Jupiters
   to Ultra-Short Period Rocky Exoplanets"
- Advisor: Dr. Linda Brown

Awards & Honors

• Christopher Skinner Prize 2024
  Outstanding postgraduate research in astrophysics

Publications

Total citations: 191 | H-index: 7

First Author

1. Keyte et al. (2025) "Impact of photoevaporative winds in chemical models of externally irradiated protoplanetary disks". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025).

2. Keyte et al. (2024b) "Volatile Composition of the HD 169142 Protoplanetary Disk and its Embedded Planet". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024).

3. Keyte et al. (2024a) "Spatially Resolving the Volatile Sulfur Abundance in the HD 100546 Protoplanetary Disk". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023).

4. Keyte et al. (2023) "Azimuthal C/O Variations in a Planet-Forming Disk". Nature Astronomy, 7, 684-693 (2023).

Coauthor

1. Kama et al. (2025) "Refractory phosphorus in the HD 100546 protoplanetary disk". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025).

2. Planet formation environments collaboration (2025) "The past, present and future of observations of externally irradiated disks ". Submitted

3. Evans et al. (2025) "ALMA reveals thermal and non-thermal desorption of methanol ice in the HD 100546 protoplanetary disk". The Astrophysical Journal (2025)

4. Temmink et al. (2025) "Characterising the molecular line emission in the asymmetric Oph-IRS 48 dust trap: Temperatures, timescales, and sub-thermal excitation". Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025)

5. Booth et al. (2024c) "Measuring the 34S and 33S Isotopic Ratios of Volatile Sulfur during Planet Formation". The Astronomical Journal (2024)

6. Huang et al. (2024) "Constraints on the Gas-phase C/O Ratio of DR Tau's Outer Disk from CS, SO, and C2H Observations". The Astrophysical Journal (2024)

7. Urbina et al. (2024) "Vertical and radial distribution of atomic carbon in HD 163296." Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024)

8. Booth et al. (2024b) "An ALMA Molecular Inventory of Warm Herbig Ae Disks. II. Abundant Complex Organics and Volatile Sulphur in the IRS 48 Disk." The Astronomical Journal (2024)

9. Booth et al. (2024a) "An ALMA Molecular Inventory of Warm Herbig Ae Disks. I. Molecular Rings, Asymmetries, and Complexity in the HD 100546 Disk." The Astronomical Journal (2024)

10. Chen et al. (2023) "Planet Gap-opening Feedback on Disk Thermal Structure and Composition". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023).

11. Booth et al. (2023) "Sulphur Monoxide Emission Tracing an Embedded Protoplanet in the HD 100546 Protoplanetary Disk". Astronomy & Astrophysics (2023).

12. Changeat et al. (2020) "Impact of Planetary Mass Uncertainties on Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals". The Astrophysical Journal (2020).

Observing Programs

Principal Investigator

• ALMA "The Quest for the Missing Sulfur in Protoplanetary Disks" (2024)
• APEX "Azimuthal C/O Variations in a Planet-Forming Disk" (2022)
• APEX "The Quest for the Missing Sulfur in Protoplanetary Disks" (2021)

Co-Investigator

• ALMA "Chemical Signatures of a Recently-Confirmed Giant Protoplanet" (2024)
• ALMA "Evaporating Ices in Planet-Forming Disks" (2021)

Presentations

2025

• Towards New Frontiers: The Astrochemical Journey, Garching, Germany
• The Birth of Solar Systems, Bertinoro, Italy
• University College London, London, UK

2024

• UK&I Disks Meeting, Warwick, UK
• New Heights in Planetary Formation, Garching, Germany (poster)
• Leiden Observatory, Leiden, the Netherlands
• Exoplanets V, Leiden, the Netherlands (poster)
• University of Tartu (online)
• London Exoplanet Meeting, London, UK

2023

• UK Exoplanet Meeting, London, UK
• University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
• Ariel Consortium Meeting (online)
• Centre for Planetary Sciences, London, UK
• DALI Modelling Workshop (online)
• Protostars & Planets VII Conference, Kyoto, Japan (poster)
• Imperial College London, London, UK
• Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

2022

• DALI Modelling Workshop (online)
• Centre for Space Exochemistry Data, London, UK

Supervision

• Carolina Mercedes Garcia Lopez, MSc Astrophysics (QMUL; 2025-)
• Jorge Perez Gonzalez, MSci Astrophysics (UCL; 2023-24)
• Jorge Perez Gonzalez, Summer Research Project (UCL; Jul 2023)
• Wali Butt, MSc Astrophysics (UCL; 2022-23)
• Carlos Ferrao, MSc Planetary Science (UCL; 2021-22)

Outreach & Professional Development

Service and Outreach

• Peer reviewer (A&A, ApJ; 2023-present)
• In2ScienceUK initiative, Mentor (July 2023)
• Shift25 initiative, Mentor (July 2023)
• UCL Astrophysics Masterclass, Lecturer (Feb 2023)
• ORBYTS Research Program, Project leader (2021-22)
• UCL Astrophysics Masterclass, Lecturer (Feb 2022)

Development

• ALMA ARC Training Workshop, University of Manchester, UK (Feb 2023)
• Introduction to Machine Learning, University College London, UK (Jul 2022)
• Advanced Python, University College London, UK (Jun 2022)
• Dustbusters Workshop on Protoplanetary Disks, Gargnano, Italy (May 2022)
• DIRAC Machine Learning Workshop, Imperial College London, UK (Apr 2022)
• ALMA I-TRAIN Workshop (writing and reviewing ALMA proposals), Online (Mar 2022)
• ALMA ARC Training Course, Online (Sep 2021)
• ICIC Data Analysis Workshop, Imperial College London, UK (Sep 2021)
• Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop, Online (Jun 2021)
• ALMA I-TRAIN Workshop (self-calibration), Online (May 2021)
• ALMA Virtual Workshop, Online (Mar 2021)
• ALMA I-TRAIN Workshop (simulating observations), Online (Mar 2021)
• ALMA I-TRAIN Workshop (weblog inspection), Online (Feb 2021)
• STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy, Online (Jan 2021)
• ALMA I-TRAIN Workshop (imaging pipeline), Online (Dec 2020)

Professional Memberships

• DECO ALMA Large Programme Collaboration Member (2023-)
• ARIEL Consortium Member (Jun 2023-)
• Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (Sep 2020-)
• Member of the Institute of Physics (Sep 2020-)