Featured image: Map of the solar system with orbits of more than 18000 asteroids shown at their positions on New Years’ Eve 1999, made by Eleanor Lutz
Hi there! My name is Prakruti, you can call me "Kruti".
I am a PhD student in the Planet and Star Formation (PSF) department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany. I am also a Fellow of the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics (IMPRS-HD).
I work on planet formation theory with Dr. Mario Flock (UFOS project), studying dust-gas dynamics of star-light heated protoplanetary disks– specifically, testing the effects of stellar irradiation on disk geometry using radiation hydrodynamics.
I also have ongoing collaborations on modeling circumbinary disks, pressureless dust fluids, gravitational instability, and streaming instability.
An updated list of all my publications can be found on the NASA ADS library or my ORCID. Find my full CV here.
I am a PhD student in the Planet and Star Formation (PSF) department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg, Germany. I am also a Fellow of the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics (IMPRS-HD).
I work on planet formation theory with Dr. Mario Flock (UFOS project), studying dust-gas dynamics of star-light heated protoplanetary disks– specifically, testing the effects of stellar irradiation on disk geometry using radiation hydrodynamics.
I also have ongoing collaborations on modeling circumbinary disks, pressureless dust fluids, gravitational instability, and streaming instability.
An updated list of all my publications can be found on the NASA ADS library or my ORCID. Find my full CV here.
Short CV
Oct 2022 - now
PhD Student, Max Planck Insitute for Astronomy & Universität Heidelberg (IMPRS Fellow)
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Master of Science, Astro and Particle Physics, Universität Tübingen
May 2017 - June 2020
Bachelor of Science (PCM), Christ University, Bangalore
Research Interests
- Radiative transfer methods for low-mass star formation studies
- Hydrodynamical instabilities, turbulence and substructure formation in disks
- Formation and evolution of binary disks and linking them to observations
- Pressureless fluid method for dust in hydro codes
- Scattered light substructures and their origins