Cristobal Petrovich

I'm an associate professor at the Astronomy Department of Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, I was an assistant professor at the Institute for Astrophysics at Universidad Catolica in Chile. I held postdoctoral positions as a Bart J. Bok fellow at the Steward Observatory in the University of Arizona and Gruber Foundation and CITA fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA). I did my PhD in Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University working on planet formation and orbital dynamics. Previous to this, I did my undergraduate studies at Universidad Catolica in Chile in astronomy and engineering studying the thermal evolution of neutron stars.

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My main research interests are on exoplanets and orbital dynamics, while my broader interests span a wide range topics involving stellar and compact-object systems (check my research blog and publications).

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I'm originally from one of the southernmost settlements of the American continent in the Chilean Patagonia (where?) and the academic journey has been constantly taking me north from there.

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