Stanley A. Baronett

Stanley A. Baronett joined the Flatiron Institute as a Pre-Doctoral Research Analyst in the Planet Formation Group at the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) in the fall of 2023. Working with Yan-Fei Jiang (CCA) and Phil Armitage (CCA/Stony Brook University), he uses and helps 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.

He is currently a UNLV Foundation Board of Trustees Graduate 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 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 contributed 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.