Career

2018-present: Reader in Astrophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge

2016-2018: University Lecturer in Astrophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge

2015-2016: Visiting Faculty Member, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA)

2007-2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University (USA)

2005-2007: Assistant Professor, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto (Canada)

Research

Roman Rafikov is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics research group. His current research interests include (but are not limited to) the following areas:

exoplanets (around single and binary stars; young, main sequence, and evolved stars)

planet formation and dynamics

astrophysical fluid dynamics

accretion disks (protoplanetary, disks in binaries, quasars, etc.)

N-body and galactic dynamics

high-energy astrophysics

Selected Publications

Vartanyan, D., Garmilla, J. A., & Rafikov, R. R. (2016) "Tatooine Nurseries: Structure and Evolution of Circumbinary Protoplanetary Disks", The Astrophysical Journal, 816, id. 94

Philippov, A. A., Rafikov, R. R., & Stone, J. M. (2016) "Spreading Layers in Accreting Objects: Role of Acoustic Waves for Angular Momentum Transport, Mixing, and Thermodynamics", The Astrophysical Journal, 817, id. 62

Macintosh, B., ..., Rafikov, R. R., et al (2015), "Discovery and spectroscopy of the young jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager", Science, 350, Issue 6256, 64

Rafikov, R. R. (2015) "Viscosity Prescription for Gravitationally Unstable Accretion Disks", The Astrophysical Journal, 804, id. 62

Silsbee, K. & Rafikov, R. R. (2015) "Birth Locations of the Kepler Circumbinary Planets", The Astrophysical Journal, 808, id. 58

Silsbee, K. & Rafikov, R. R. (2015) "Planet Formation in Binaries: Dynamics of Planetesimals Perturbed by the Eccentric Protoplanetary Disk and the Secondary", The Astrophysical Journal, 798, id. 71