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Dr Sebastiaan Krijt

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Dr Sebastiaan Krijt

Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics

Location: Physics 402

Telephone: 01392 725520

Extension: (Streatham) 5520

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Research

My research focuses mainly on the early stages of planet formation, during which microscopic dust particles come together to form kilometer-size planetesimals – the building blocks of planets. I am interested in understanding how the chemical and elemental abundances in different regions of the protoplanetary disk are imprinted on the planets that are forming. Read more about my research here. 

Education

• Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2015, Leiden University
• M.Sc. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010, University of Amsterdam
• B.Sc. in Physics & Astrophysics, 2009, University of Amsterdam 

Employment

• 2020 - present: Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Exeter
• 2018 - 2020: NASA Hubble Fellow, The University of Arizona
• 2015 - 2018: Postdoctoral Scholar & NASA Hubble Fellow (since 2017), The University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• "Hints for icy pebble migration feeding an oxygen-rich chemistry in the inner planet-forming region of disks"
  Banzatti et al., 2020, ApJ, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200913525B/abstract
• "CO depletion in protoplanetary disks: a unified picture combining physical sequestration and chemical processing"
  Krijt et al., 2020, ApJ, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...899..134K/abstract
• "Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth"
  Grundy et al., 2020, Science, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Sci...367.3705G/abstract
• "Systematic Variations of CO Gas Abundance with Radius in Gas-rich Protoplanetary Disks"
  Zhang et al., 2019, ApJ, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...883...98Z/abstract
• "Transport of CO in Protoplanetary Disks: Consequences of Pebble Formation, Settling, and Radial Drift"
  Krijt et al., 2018, ApJ, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...864...78K/abstract
• "Tracing Water Vapor and Ice During Dust Growth"
  Krijt et al., 2016, ApJ, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...833..285K/abstract
• "A Steeper than Linear Disk Mass-Stellar Mass Scaling Relation"
  Pascucci et al., 2016, ApJ, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...831..125P/abstract

Visit SAO/NASA ADS or Google Scholar for a complete and up-to-date list of my publications.