Eve J. Lee

My group studies a broad range of topics related to planet and star formation. Some of the driving questions include:

• What are the key physical processes that drive various patterns we see in exoplanet population?
• How do different stellar properties affect the emerging planetary systems?
• How do dust grains, the initial building material of planets, organize themselves in protoplanetary disks?

Recent highlights

• Dust-gas dynamics in rings:
  • Rapid destruction of rings at high Stokes number in GIZMO (Lee, Fuentes, & Hopkins 2022)
  • Probing Dust and Gas Properties Using Ringed Disks (Lee 2024)
• Physics of planetary accretion:
  • The Not-so Dramatic Effect of Advective Flows on Gas Accretion (Savignac & Lee 2024)
  • Impacting Atmospheres: How Late-Stage Pollution Alters Exoplanet Composition (Vlahos, Chachan, Savignac & Lee 2024)
  • Creating the radius gap without mass loss:
    • Paper 1 (Lee & Connors 2021)
    • Paper 2 (Lee, Karalis, & Thorngren 2022)
• Inner-Outer planet correlation:
  • Theory and stellar mass dependence (Chachan & Lee 2023)
  • Observed strong correlation for FGK dwarfs (Bryan & Lee 2024)
• Understanding exoplanet orbital period distribution:
  • For Sub-Neptunes and Ultra-Short Period Planets (Lee & Chiang 2017)
  • Dynamical erasure of migratory signatures and flattening of period distribution (Marimbu & Lee 2024)
  • For Jupiters under disk migration (Hallatt & Lee 2020)
  • For Sub-Saturns under evaporation (Hallatt & Lee 2022)

Postdocs

See below opportunities. Interested applicants are highly encouraged to reach out to me.

Graduate students

• Vincent Savignac (McGill --> PhD @ UC San Diego)

Undergraduate students

• Lina D'Aoust (Trottier Summer Intern '24 --> Honours thesis, U Victoria)

Former members

Yayaati Chachan (CITA National Fellow '24 --> Postdoc w/ Jonathan Fortney @ UC Santa Cruz), Amy Steele (PDF '23 w/ Nicolas Cowan --> Director of Astronomy and Research, Yerkes Observatory), Tim Hallatt (McGill PhD '24 --> Postdoc w/ Sarah Millholland @ MIT), Rafael Fuentes (PhD of Andrew Cumming '22, MITACS intern --> Postdoc @ CU Boulder), Maya Tatarelli (McGill MSc '24 --> PhD @ Côte d'Azur), Amalia Karalis (McGill MSc '24), Kevin Marimbu (McGill MSc '24), Noah Goldman (McGill MSc '23 --> Neuroimaging Engineer, Washington University in St. Louis), Cheryl Wang (McGill MSc '23 w/ Nicolas Cowan --> PhD Engineering, McGill), Emilia Vlahos (NSERC USRA '23, McGill UG '24), Luca Camarra (NSERC USRA '24, McGill), Antoine Bourdin (McGill UG '23), Philip Richard (McGill UG '23 --> PhD Physics, U Toronto), Abigail Denney (McGill UG '22 --> PhD Astronomy, U Toronto), Mattias Lazda (McGill UG '22 --> PhD Astronomy, U Toronto), Robin Leman (McGill UG '22 --> Associate Programmer, Relic Entertainment), Michael Poon (Toronto UG '21 --> PhD Astronomy, U Toronto), Dasen Ye (McGill UG '21 --> MSc Physics, McGill), Nicholas Connors (McGill UG '19 --> Software Engineer, Matrox Imaging --> MSc, U de Montreal), Jonathan Lin (UC Berkeley UG '18 w/ Eugene Chiang --> PhD Physics & Astro, UCLA, NSF GRFP)

• Postdocs: NSF fellowship, NASA Hubble fellowship, UC Presidential Postdoc Fellowship
• Grad students: apply to UC San Diego Astronomy PhD Program
• Undergrads: SPURS; STARS; courses & honors

Courses developed:

• (Grad) PHYS 601/602: Introduction to Graduate Studies in Physics 1/2
This is a professional development course series designed to address faculty-student gap in expectations, build a sense of community and cohort, and to equip students with skills in e.g., proposal writing, effective teaching, scientific communication, data management, and comprehensive oral exams.

Courses taught:

• (Grad) ASTR 210: Planets and Exoplanets

• (UG) PHYS 340/350: Majors/Honours Electricity and Magnetism
• (UG) PHYS 432: Physics of Fluids
• (Grad) PHYS 642: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
• (Grad) PHYS 643: Astrophysical Fluids