David M. Hernandez

Biographical Sketch

David M. Hernandez is an assistant professor of physics at National Taiwan Normal University. He completed the following postdoctoral positions:

• CycloAstro fellow and Associate Research Scientist at Yale University.
• Minor Planet Center Fellow and Institute for Theory and Computation associate at the Harvard--Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

David's PhD was completed at MIT, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow; he also held a three-year MIT Lyons fellowship and a Shah Zion fellowship. His thesis, "Solving the N-body problem in astrophysics,'' was supervised by Ed Bertschinger. David's thesis committee also included Mark Vogelsberger and Jesse Thaler.

David obtained his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Arizona, where he was an Arizona Flinn Scholar and U.S. Goldwater Scholar.

Research

David is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist. David's research focuses on applications of the mathematical N-body problem, which describes the motions of planets, stars, and galaxies. Please check the ''Papers'' section for more.

• Eric Agol, Edmund Bertschinger, Romeel Dave, Walter Dehnen, Sam Hadden, Matthew J. Holman, Junichiro Makino, Margaret Pan, Hanno Rein, Daniel Tamayo, Frank van den Bosch, Long Wang, Jack Wisdom, Richard Zeebe.

Codes

Links to some open-source codes I have worked on are available below. For other codes, feel free to contact me.

• celmech
• EnckeHH
• MERCURIUS (part of Rebound)
• NbodyGradient
• ReboundX
• Universal.c

Publications

A Google Scholar profile available here. A NASA ADS listing is available here. They may not always be updated.