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I am currently a Harry Hess Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. Prior to this, I was a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Instituion for Science, and I completed my Ph.D. at Yale University, where I worked with Prof. David Bercovici in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
I define myself as a planetary geophysicist. I am generally interested in the formation and evolution of planetary bodies. My research approach is to develop theoretical models and combine the model results with a variety of observations. My ultimate goals are to understand what processes shaped the chemical and physical properties of terrestrial planets and how these properties affected their evolution. I tackle these problems from the perspective of the evolution of planetary building blocks and their interactions with planet formation processes.
Most of my past and ongoing research projects are about planetesimals (asteroid-sized planetary building blocks) and planetary embryos (Moon-to-Mars-sized “proto-planets”). Specifically, my research interest covers the following topics:
Ice sublimation and hydrothermal processes in initially water/ice-rich planetesimals
The formation and evolution of planetesimal cores and mantle-stripped metallic bodies, and dynamo activities in these objects
Silicate melt migration and differentiation in planetesimals and planetary embryos
Volatile depletion in terrestrial bodies due to nebular and planetesimal processes
Long-term planet evolution and connections between planet formation and present-day observations
For more information, please check my CV and publication list, or send me an email.