Group Members

• PI: Assoc. Prof. Andrew W. Steiner
• Postdoc: Zidu Lin (Aug. 2020—)
• Graduate students: Satyajit Roy (2019—), and Mahmudul Hasan Anik (Aug. 2021—)
• Undergraduate students: Gema P. Villegas (Jun. 2021—)
• Group publications and previous group members
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Research in theoretical nuclear astrophysics

My research group studies how neutron star observations can be used to understand how neutrons and protons interact and how nuclear physics plays a role in astrophysical objects and processes. Recently, we have

• determined how the equation of state and superfluid nature of dense matter is determined by neutron star observations,
• showed how tidal deformabilities are modified by strong phase transitions,
• and combined modern theoretical results on neutron matter and neutron star observations to make predictions for neutron star tidal deformabilities for LIGO.