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Dr. Jonathan Horner
(Postdoc)
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Solar System dynamics
(particularly the behaviour of small bodies in the outer Solar System),
now at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
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Dr. Augustin Anic
(Postdoc) |
Giant impacts, Mercury, SPH simulations.
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Dr. Oliver Nyffenegger
(Postdoc) |
Protoplanetary disk dynamics, development of orbit-averaged Monte Carlo scheme
for the modelling of disc-like systems.
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Dominik Hofer
(Ph. D. Student)
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Giant Planet formation,
now at the Institute for Climate and Environmental
Physics, University of Berne, Switzerland
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Dr. James A. Whitby
(Oberassistent)
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Timescale of rocky
planetesimal and planet formation, differentiation and alteration;
radiometric dating of early solar system processes; origin and
evolution of volatile reservoirs in the solar system; development of
instrumentation for cosmochemical analyses,
not at TOFWerk/EMPA
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Pascal Bauer
(Ph. D. Student)
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Writing simulation software for the local ISIS Beowulf Cluster,
elaborate an extensible framework for simulations consisting of a hirarchical
solver for long range forces (Gravity, Electromagnetism), SPH part for
fluid dynamics and brittle solids.
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Mike Wüthrich
(Ph.D. Student)
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Visualization of accretional discs
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Dr. Ruth Ziethe
(Postdoc)
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Core formation and
early
differentiation of terrestrial planets, thermal evolution of planets,
thermal
convection, computational fluid dynamics, finite element and difference
methods, now at ESA - ESTEC (Noordwijk, SCI-SM)
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Christoph Mordasini
(Ph. D. Student) |
Numerical modelling of
the formation of extrasolar planets, astronomical observations (HARPS,
Zimmerwald), cluster administration. |
willy.benz(at)space.unibe.ch
