Expertise: Astronomy & Astrophysics
I am especially interested in how planets were assembled from their natal circumstellar disks, a.k.a. protoplanetary disks, to form our Solar System and thousands of extrasolar planetary systems detected in the past couple of decades. I specialize in magneto-hydrodynamics and dust-gas dynamics of protoplanetary disks and the formation of kilometer-sized planetary objects such as asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects in the Solar System. My other research interests include galactic dynamics and the interstellar medium.
