Dr. Dimitri Veras

Biography

Dimitri Veras is an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick, specializing in planetary system dynamics, particularly in the contexts of planetary formation and evolution. His research focuses on the fates of planetary systems as their host stars evolve into white dwarfs and the subsequent interactions between planetary bodies and their parent stars. Veras has published extensively on the processes that lead to the destruction and evolution of planets, asteroids, comets, and moons in various stellar environments. Currently, he is exploring the future fate of extrasolar asteroids and comets as they traverse through the violent phases of stellar evolution. He employs simulation-based, theory-based, and analytics-based methods in his research. Veras obtained his PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Florida. His significant contributions to the field of astrophysics include invited review papers on the evolution of rocky extrasolar materials and insights into how planetary systems evolve around white dwarfs. In addition to his research, he is also involved with engaging prospective PhD students interested in astrodynamics and the physical properties of bodies around white dwarfs.

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