Raphaëlle D. Haywood studied Physics at Imperial College London, UK, where she obtained her MSci degree in 2011. She went on to do her PhD in Astrophysics on the detection of Neptune- and Earth-mass exoplanets under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Collier Cameron at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she recently graduated in fall 2015. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard College Observatory, working with Prof. David Charbonneau and his group, where she is pursuing her investigations on the magnetic variability of the Sun and other stars and pushing the magnetic activity barrier in exoplanet mass determinations ever further.