Dr. Mei Ting (Martha) Mak

My main interest lies in understanding how photochemical hazes can impact the atmospheric structure among different types of planets, and how these effects, in turn, shape their habitability and observability. Currently, I am investigating how atmospheric transport processes lead to asymmetrical haze distributions across a planet’s atmosphere, and how these variations can be detected with state-of-the-art telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

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• Mak, M. T., Komacek, T., Mayne, N., Sing, D.
  An Analytical Framework for Predicting the Distribution of Photochemical Hazes Across the Two Limbs of hot-Jupiters
  [submitted]

• Mak, M. T., Sergeev, D., Mayne, N., Manners, J., Zamyatina, M., Steinrueck, M., et al.
  3D simulations of TRAPPIST-1e with varying CO2, CH4, and haze profiles
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 542, Issue 3, pp.1873–1900 (2025)

• Mak, M. T., Sergeev, D., Mayne, N., Banks, N., Eager-Nash, J., Manners, J., Arney, G., et al.
  3D simulations of TRAPPIST-1e with varying CO2, CH4, and haze profiles
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 530, Issue 3, pp.2933-2933 (2024)

• Mak, M. T., Mayne, N., Sergeev, D., Eager-Nash, J., Manners, J., Hebrard E., Kohary, K.
  3D Simulations of the Archean Earth Including Photochemical Haze Profiles
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 128, Issue 20 (2023)

• Adams, S., Manners, J., Mayne, N., et al., incl. Mak, M. T.
  Benchmarking Photolysis Rates: Species for Earth and Exoplanets
  [accepted in Geoscientific Model Development]

• Mukherjee, S., Sings, D., Fu, G., et al., incl. Mak, M. T.
  Cloudy mornings and clear evenings on a giant extrasolar world
  [accepted in Science]

• Chubb, K., Mak, M. T., Biller, B., Rugheimer, S., et al.
  The power of polarimetry for characterising exoplanet atmospheres, clouds, and surfaces with NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory
  HWO white paper (2026) available on arXiv

• Barstow, J., Biller, B., Mak, M. T., et al.
  Exoplanet characterization with NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory
  HWO white paper (2026) available on arXiv

• Van Eylen, V., Massey, R., Awan, S., et al., incl. Mak, M. T.
  Transformational astrophysics and exoplanet science with Habitable Worlds Observatory’s High Resolution Imager
  HWO white paper (2025) available on arXiv

• Li, H., Wang, X., Dong, C., et al., incl. Mak, M. T.
  Modeling Atmospheric Ion Escape from Kepler-1649 b and c over Time
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 994, Number 2, L50 (2025)

• Eager-Nash, J., Daines, S., McDermott, J., et al., incl. Mak, M. T.
  Simulating biosignatures from pre-oxygen photosynthesizing life on TRAPPIST-1e
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 531, Issue 1, pp.468-494 (2024)

• Villanueva, G., Fauchez, T., Kofman, V., et al., incl. Mak, M. T.
  Modeling Atmospheric Lines by the Exoplanet Community (MALBEC) Version 1.0: A CUISINES Radiative Transfer Intercomparison Project
  The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3, id.64, 15 pp (2024)

• I am a part of Oxford Planets and Life (OPAL) where we work to understand how life evolves in diverse environments, and to make predictions of how life might emerge and flourish in distant corners of the Universe.
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• I serve on the steering committee of the BOWIE+ collaboration, where we develop collaborative JWST GO-time proposals designed to deepen our understanding of how planetary systems take shape and evolve.
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• I am a member of the Exoclimatology Theory Group, working to unravel the dynamics and chemistry that shape planetary atmospheres and to understand how these processes manifest in the data we gather from afar.
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