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. In collaboration with Yan-Fei Jiang (Center for Computational Astrophysics, CCA) and Phil Armitage (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. In collaboration 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. In collaboration with Daniel Tamayo (Harvey Mudd College) and Jason H. Steffen (UNLV), he contributes to the N-body code REBOUNDx to study the effects of post-main sequence stellar evolution and tidal dissipation on planetary dynamics.
Timeline
- 2022—present: Ph.D. Astronomy, UNLV
- 2024—2026: UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees Fellow
- 2023—2024: Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, CCA
- 2020—2022: M.S. Astronomy, UNLV
- 2018—2020: B.S. Computational Physics, UNLV
- 2016—2018: IT Consultant, Qdigital Technology Services
- 2009—2016: IT Specialist, Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute
- 2013—2015: M.A. Philosophy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- 2007—2012: B.A. Philosophy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa