May 1, 2025: Jake Simon just won the ISU Award for Early Achievement in Research!
April 21, 2025: New paper led by Daniel Carrera on dust grain growth in very young, massive Class 0/I disks. Currently submitted to ApJ. Link to the paper
April 10, 2025: New paper led by Daniel carrera on dust grain growth inside disk vortices. Currently submitted to A&A. Link to the paper
February 13, 2025: New paper led by Daniel Carrera on particle growth coupled to the streaming instability has been submitted to A&A. Link to the paper
February 4, 2025: Jay's paper on high resolution studies of the streaming instability clumping boundary has been accepted to ApJ. Link to the paper
November 7, 2024: Jake just won a NASA Emerging Worlds grant!
July 24, 2024: David Rea has just won a NASA FINESST award! Congratulations David!!!
July 1, 2024: Jake just won a NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Grant (AAG)!
June 12, 2024: David's paper on MHD turbulence and accretion flows in the planet forming regions of disks has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Congrats David! Link to the paper
June 11, 2024: New postdoc Tab Tanvir has joined the group - welcome Tab!
May 2, 2024: Jay's paper on turbulence and the streaming instability has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Congrulations Jay! Link to paper
April 30, 2024: My collaborators (as the lead authors) and I have published a paper on the limited role of the streaming instability in the formation of moons: Link to the paper
April 25, 2024: I have received tenure with promotion to Associate Professor at Iowa State University!
April 16, 2024: Olivia will be joining New Mexico State University's graduate program in the Fall. Congrats Olivia!
April 12, 2024: Graduate student David Rea has submitted his paper on magnetically driven turbulence and accretion flows in planet-forming regions of protoplanetary disks. Congrats David! Link to the paper
April 11, 2024: Graduate student Abigail Davenport has (very) successfully defended her thesis on dust grain growth in very young disks. Congrats Abigail!!!
January 10, 2024: Our TCAN collaboration has published a new paper on the streaming instability's and pebble accretion's combined role in explaining the density dichotomy of Kuiper Belt Objects. Click here
October 9, 2023: Flaherty et al. (2020) (includes Simon as co-author) has been awarded an IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award, which recognizes it as one of the most cited papers from North America published across the entire IOP Publishing journal portfolio within the past three years (2020 to 2022). It also features in the top 1% of most cited articles in the Astronomy and Astrophysics subject category.
September 9, 2023: Research Scientist Daniel Carrera (PI) and Prof. Jake Simon (Co-PI) have won a NASA Exoplanets Research Program grant.
September 1, 2023: Daniel Carrera has been promoted to a research scientist position. Congrats Daniel!
June 21, 2023: Postdoc Daniel Carrera (PI) and Prof. Jake Simon (Co-PI) have won a NASA Emerging Worlds grant!