ANKAN SUR
ANKAN SUR
Hi, welcome to my webpage! I’m a theoretical astrophysicist specializing in planetary science and exoplanet research. I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar Employee at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before that, I was affiliated with the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and am a member of the Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures (CMAP) collaboration.
I am the lead developer of APPLE — A Python Code for Planetary Evolution — a next-generation planetary and stellar evolution code for modeling the internal structures and thermal evolution of giant planets and exoplanets. (The code is currently private on my GitHub repository.) You can learn more about this work on my research page.
My earlier research focused on neutron stars and gravitational-wave astrophysics, including using gravitational-wave observations for cosmology. I earned my Ph.D. from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland) in September 2022 and was a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation, New York) from 2021–2022. My CV can be found here.
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, UCLA
595 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Email: ankansur@epss.ucla.edu