Stanley A. Baronett

Stanley A. Baronett joined the Flatiron Institute as a Pre-Doctoral Research Analyst in the Planet Formation Group at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) in the fall of 2023. Working with Yan-Fei Jiang (CCA) and Phil Armitage (CCA/Stony Brook University) he uses the non-relativistic radiation transport module for Athena++ to study the effect of multifrequency dust opacities on the thermodynamic structure of protoplanetary disks.

He is currently a Graduate Research Assistant under Zhaohuan Zhu in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). With Chao-Chin Yang (University of Alabama), he uses a particle–mesh module for Athena++ to study planetesimal formation and dust–gas dynamics driven by the streaming instability with various pressure gradients. With Jason H. Steffen (UNLV) and Daniel Tamayo (Harvey Mudd College), he contributes to REBOUNDx to study the effects of post-main sequence stellar evolution and tidal dissipation on planetary dynamics. Prior to earning a B.S. in computational physics and an M.S. in astronomy at UNLV, he earned a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and worked for nine years in the IT industry, first as a specialist and later as a consultant.