Avery Bailey is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, working with Prof. Zhaohuan Zhu. Avery’s research focuses on the formation and evolution of planets with applications to our own solar system as well as the ever-increasing sample of confirmed exoplanets. Within this field, he tackles problems related to circumplanetary disk dynamics, planet-disk interaction, hydrodynamic instabilities, and envelope formation. To model these complex physical systems, he employs numerical methods and multi-dimensional simulations accounting for both hydrodynamics and radiative transfer. As a result, he is an expert in numerical methods and high performance computing as applied to astrophysical contexts.
More information about his research can be found at his personal website.
Biography
- 2021-present - Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- 2021 - Ph.D., Princeton University
- 2018 - M.A. Astrophysics, Princeton University
- 2016 - B.A. Mathematics, University of Virginia
- 2016 - B.A. Astronomy-Physics, University of Virginia