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Simón Casassus
Full Professor
Training and contact
Ph.D. en Astrofísica, 1999, U. de Oxford, Reino Unido.
Research Topics:Planet Formation and the Interstellar Medium.
Area of interest
Currently, my research focuses on the astrophysics of protoplanetary disks and aims to observe ongoing planet formation. I combine radio/IR expertise with observations of circumstellar dust and gas, the interpretation of which is based on radiative transfer and hydrodynamics.
The challenge of understanding planet formation requires the concerted efforts of a team of researchers. I am the principal investigator of MAD Nucleus, which studies the early evolution of planetary systems from a comprehensive, observational, and theoretical perspective (http://madnucleus.com).
Biography
Dr. Simon Casassus is a full professor at the DAS and regularly lectures on physics and astrophysics at the graduate level.
As of October 1, 2020, he had participated in 114 ISI-indexed articles, with a total of 4,881 citations, and was the first author of 21 articles (10 MNRAS, 3 A&A, 4 ApJ, 2 ApJL, 1 PASA, 1 Nature). Seven of his doctoral students have first-authored theses. He also has 51 articles as first, second, or third author, and his h-index is 36.
He was the principal investigator of the Millennium Nucleus “Protoplanetary Disks” research group, funded by the Chilean Ministry of Economy for six years, and described at http://madnucleus.com.
His expertise in IR imaging and spectroscopy was originally acquired during his Ph.D. studies on planetary nebulae.
His expertise in radio includes synthetic imaging and the statistical evaluation of interferometer data, which he gained as a postdoctoral fellow with the Cosmic Background Imager experiment and later refined as an assistant professor at FCFM, where he designed new algorithms for image reconstruction.
As an associate professor, he established a research line on radio emission mechanisms in the interstellar medium. He further developed his knowledge of PDRs during his sabbatical year at the Paris-Meudon Observatory in 2009–2010, as a Marie Curie fellow.
As of October 1, 2020, he had participated in 114 ISI-indexed articles, with a total of 4,881 citations, and was the first author of 21 articles (10 MNRAS, 3 A&A, 4 ApJ, 2 ApJL, 1 PASA, 1 Nature). Seven of his doctoral students have first-authored theses. He also has 51 articles as first, second, or third author, and his h-index is 36.
He was the principal investigator of the Millennium Nucleus “Protoplanetary Disks” research group, funded by the Chilean Ministry of Economy for six years, and described at http://madnucleus.com.
His expertise in IR imaging and spectroscopy was originally acquired during his Ph.D. studies on planetary nebulae.
His expertise in radio includes synthetic imaging and the statistical evaluation of interferometer data, which he gained as a postdoctoral fellow with the Cosmic Background Imager experiment and later refined as an assistant professor at FCFM, where he designed new algorithms for image reconstruction.
As an associate professor, he established a research line on radio emission mechanisms in the interstellar medium. He further developed his knowledge of PDRs during his sabbatical year at the Paris-Meudon Observatory in 2009–2010, as a Marie Curie fellow.
