Wladimir Lyra
Associate Professor
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolWladimir Lyra is an associate professor of astronomy with 20 years of research experience specializing in planet formation, accretion disk dynamics, and the habitability of icy moons. He earned his PhD in 2009 and has authored 48 papers (30 as first/second author) with over 1,700 citations and an h-index of 26, blending analytical theory, MHD and dust-dynamics simulations, and supercomputing code development. His work spans academia and research institutions including JPL and the American Museum of Natural History, where he led NSF-funded studies and contributed a Nature paper on debris-disk instabilities. As a mentor he has supervised numerous graduate and undergraduate researchers and built numerical tools that predict planet migration outcomes. Based in Las Cruces at New Mexico State University, he brings a rare combination of theoretical insight and hands-on simulation expertise applied to exoplanets and icy-moon habitability.
20 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Astronomy, Bachelor of Science (BS), Astronomy at Federal University of Rio de JaneiroDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy at Uppsala University
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Swedish, French
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Github Skills (13)
petsc10
fenics10
finite-element-analysis10
hydrodynamics10
finite-difference10
snl-applications10
density-functional-theory10
spread10
diffraction10
multiphysics10
python8
pebble1
hierarchical1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wlyra/covid19
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
SIR code in python to model the spread of COVID-19
Contributions:154 commits, 149 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
pythonsirspread
wlyra/Astro506
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:66 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years
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