I am always looking
for motivated and talented
students or postdocs to work
with. While my work revolves
around using computers to
explore the processes by which
planets form, there are many
opportunities for individuals
with a variety of computer
experience. Feel free to contact
me to discuss possibilities.
Current
graduate students:
- Rich Lyons is currently
working with me to develop a
means of modeling very
energetic collisions in the
early Solar System and the
effects that they would have
on meteorite parent bodies.
- Rebecca Fischer, a student of Professor Andy Campbell, and I have
been working to understand
how planetary accretion
impacts the chemical
evolution of planets.
- Reto Trappitsch, a
student of
Professor Andrew Davis,
and I have been exploring
the effects of irradiation
by solar cosmic rays on
dust grains in the solar
nebula.
Current
undergraduate students:
- Kaitlyn McCain is working
with me to understand the
thermal evolution of
meteorite parent bodies as
they are warmed by the decay
of radioactive isotopes and
are subjected to collisions.
She is specifically
determining the thermal
diffusivity and heat
capacity of actual
meteorites and how they
relate to the physical
properties of these samples.
Former
Postdocs
- Dr. Thomas Davison
(2010-2012), Studied the
effects of collisions on
meteorite parent bodies.
Now: Research Associate at
Imperial College London
Graduate
Alumni:
- Le Yang, PhD 2014: The
Effects of Disk Building on
the Petrologic and Isotopic
Variations Among Solar
Materials (Advisor: Fred
Ciesla); Now: Seismic Imager
at CGG
Undergraduate Alumni
- Tad Komacek 2013: Thermal effects of
planetesimal
collisions in 3D; Grad
student at U. Arizona
- Molly Simon 2013: Aerodynamic sorting of dust
grainsĀ during
planetesimal sweep-up
Grad student at U.
Arizona
- Alex Lanzano 2014: Thermal effects of
collisions in icy
planetesimals; Grad
student at U. Colorado
- Cecilia Sanders 2014: Noble gas trapping in
amorphous ices;
Continuing studies at
Harvard
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