Professional Interests:

• Astronomy and planetary sciences, more specifically:
  1. Circumstellar disk hydrodynamics, formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems.
  2. Gas drag on solids in gravitationally unstable disks.
  3. Gravitational instabilities in disks as an angular momentum transport mechanism and as a possible way of forming protoplanetary clumps.
  4. The effects of cooling and heating on gravitational instabilities and the long-term evolution of the disk under cooling/heating processes.
• Astrobiology.
• Programming, computational modeling, and visualization.
• Informal education.

Personal Interests:

• Science in general.
• Western art and its history, from ancient to modern.
• European history.
• Medieval/Renaissance studies.
• Archaeology.
• International travel.
• Functional art design and architecture.
• Graphic design and computer animation.
• Flamenco dancing.