Chao-Chin Yang (楊朝欽) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Alabama. Dr. Yang is a theoretical astrophysicist studying how planets were assembled from their natal circumstellar disks to form our Solar System and thousands of extrasolar planetary systems detected in the past couple of decades. He specializes in magneto-hydrodynamics and dust-gas dynamics of circumstellar disks and the formation of kilometer-sized planetary objects such as asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects in the Solar System. His investigation usually involves large-scale computer simulations on high-end computing clusters and the ensuing data analysis.
Biography
- 2022–present - Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
- 2020–2022 - Assistant Research Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- 2017–2020 - Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- 2014–2017 - Senior Research Fellow, Lund University
- 2012–2014 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University
- 2010–2012 - Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 2010 - Ph.D., University of Illinois
- 2003–2004 - Research Assistant, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica
- 2003 - M.S., National Taiwan University
- 1998 - B.S., National Taiwan University