Danica Adams is a NASA Sagan Fellow at UCLA EPSS in Professor Hilke Schlichting’s group, and she was recently awarded the UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is a photochemist with interest in planet evolution. With Dr. Schlichting, Danica is investigating how disequilibrium chemistry can explain JWST measurements of exoplanet atmospheres. Danica also conducts research in the solar system. There, she is passionate about when Mars and Venus could have hosted liquid water in their early histories and what atmospheric chemistry could have supported such climates. She obtained her B.A. in Planetary Science from UC Berkeley, and her PhD from Caltech. Before joining UCLA, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in the Wordsworth group for two years.