Brianna Zawadzki — Eric Ford

Eric B. Ford

Brianna Zawadzki

Ph.D. 2023, Penn State University (chair: Ian Czekala)
Brinson Prize Fellow, Wesleyan University

Headshot of Brianna Zawadzki

Interests

  • Planet Formation

  • Disk-Planet Interactions

  • Migration & The Kepler Dichotomy

Selected Papers

  • Zawadzki, B., Carrera, D., Ford, E.B. (2022). ApJ, 937, 53. "Migration Traps as the Root Cause of the Kepler Dichotomy."

  • Zawadzki, B., Carrera, D., Ford, E.B. (2021). MNRAS, 503, 1390. "Rapid Formation of Super-Earths around Low-mass Stars."

  • Stefansson, G. et al. (2023). "A Neptune-mass Exoplanet in Close Orbit around a Very Low-mass Star Challenges Formation Models." (co-author)