Greetings, and welcome to my homepage. I am currently a postdoc at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL/Caltech), in Pasadena, California. My research focuses around planet formation and the physics of circumstellar disks.
Specifically, I am interested on improving the ever-changing state-of-the-art of global simulations of protoplanetary disks, including physical processes such as magnetic fields, solid particles and their aerodynamics, self-gravity, resistivity, and radiative transfer. A long term goal of my research is to combine all these individual bits of physics into a single model that can be used as a laboratory to consistently simulate the processes taking place during planet formation.
I have been since 2005 a co-developer of the Pencil Code, a high order finite difference magnetohydrodynamics code that is highly modular and versatile. Videos of the simulations are publicly available on my YouTube channel.
Former groups
I received my Ph.D. in February 2009 from Uppsala University, Sweden. Before moving to sunny Pasadena, I was postdoc at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City; and before that, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), in Heidelberg, Germany. Before my Ph.D. I worked as an observer. I was a Research Assistant at CTIO (La Serena, Chile) and ESO (Garching, Germany), as well as summer intern at Space Telescope, in Baltimore. My undergrad is on Astronomy, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.