Curriculum Vitae

Brief Bio

Christopher Stark is a physics graduate student at the University of Maryland. He is researching circumstellar disks with Marc Kuchner at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In 2006, Christopher was awarded a NASA GSRP Fellowship, which has funded his current research.

Research

Exoplanets, debris disks and protoplanetary disks, debris disk-planet interactions, n-body simulations, interferometry

Projects

High-fidelity models of debris disk structures created by terrestrial-mass planets

Collisional models of debris disks

Observations of Herbig disks using the Keck Nuller

Education

Ph.D. Physics, University of Maryland, Expected 2009, GSRP Fellow
B.S. Physics, University of Northern Iowa, 2004