Wladimir Lyra
Postdoctoral Fellow

Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
Königstuhl 17
D-69117 Heidelberg
GERMANY

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Not so long ago at...


UAO
Uppsala


Cerro Tololo
La Serena


Obs. do Valongo
Rio de Janeiro

 

Greetings, and welcome to my homepage. I am a post-doc at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, working with Hubert Klahr and his planet and star formation theory group.

I recently (Feb 2009) graduated in theoretical planetary sciences at Uppsala University, working on hydrodynamical modelling of accretion disks and planet formation. You can check out some more details here on my thesis defense talk ([pdf] or [open office]). You can also follow this link for videos of my latest computer simulations.

I perform these simulations with the Pencil Code , which I am a co-developer. Pencil is a sixth order finite difference magnetohydrodynamics code that is highly modular and versatile.

Although I did my PhD in (planetary) theory, I am also a (stellar) observer, having worked on optical spectroscopy of solar type stars and optical and infrared photometry of young open clusters. Here you can find a description of my work on different fields and the related publications.

  • Research Interests
  • Planet formation, Gas giant planets, Circumstellar disks, Extra-solar planets;

    High-resolution spectroscopy, Atmospheres of late-type stars, Stellar activity;

    Open stellar clusters, Star formation, High-precision photometry;


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