Stanley A. Baronett is a UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and works with Ph.D. advisor Zhaohuan Zhu. As a Pre-Doctoral Research Analyst at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), he began collaborating with Yan-Fei Jiang (CCA) and Phil Armitage (CCA/Stony Brook University) to use and help contribute to the non-relativistic radiation transport module for Athena++ to study the effect of multifrequency dust opacities on the thermodynamic structure of protoplanetary disks. As a Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellow, he began collaborating with Chao-Chin Yang (University of Alabama) to use a particle–mesh module for Athena++ to study planetesimal formation and dust–gas dynamics driven by the streaming instability with various pressure gradients. In collaboration with Daniel Tamayo (Harvey Mudd College) and Jason H. Steffen (UNLV), he contributes to REBOUNDx to study the effects of post-main sequence stellar evolution and tidal dissipation on planetary dynamics. Prior to pursuing an academic career in astrophysics, he earned a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) and worked in information technology (IT) for nearly a decade.
Timeline
- 2022—present: Ph.D. in Astronomy, UNLV
- 2024—2026: UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees Fellow
- 2023—2024: Pre-Doctoral Research Analyst, CCA
- 2020—2022: M.S. in Astronomy, UNLV
- 2021—2022: Nevada Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow (UNLV)
- 2018—2020: B.S. in Computational Physics, UNLV
- 2016—2018: IT Consultant, Qdigital Technology Services
- 2009—2016: IT Specialist, Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute
- 2013—2015: M.A. in Philosophy, UHM
- 2007—2012: B.A. in Philosophy, UHM