Douglas N.C. Lin
Theory of planetary formation and evolution is a natural area for me to focus my research activities for several reasons. First, we are currently in the midst of a revolution in the search for extra solar planets. In little over a decade, over 200 extra solar planets have been discovered. These valuable data drive theorists like myself to explore new ideas to account for the ubiquity of planets and diversity of planetary systems. My goal is to construct a unified theory which can explain the statistical properties of planetary systems.
Academic Bio
- PhD, Cambridge 1976
- Postdoc, Cambridge & Harvard 1979-1979
- Assistant Professor, UCSC, 1979-1982
- Associate Professor, UCSC, 1982-1985
- Full Professor, UCSC, 1985-Present
- Guggenheim Fellow, Otto Schmidt Medal, von Humboldt Fellow
- Sackler Fellow, Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Director, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Web Site
- Doug Lin
- Grad Students
- Katherine Kretke
- Post Docs
- Qingjuan Yu
- Youjun Lu
- Undergrads
- Raman Narayan
- Randy Laine
- Vivien Parmentier
- Roubing Dong
- Yan Wang
- Recent Advisees
- Miki Najajima
- Shulin Li
- Hui Zhang
- Andrew Cummings
- Michael Fellhauer
- Pingao Gu
- Hubert Klahr
- Rolf Klessen
- Makiko Nagasawa
- Taku Takeuchi
- Research Centers
- PISGM
- TASC
- Research Groups
- Planet Formation
- Contact Info
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