INTERESTS
N-body and hydrodynamical simulations applied to protoplanetary disk evolution and planetary formation; extra-solar planet detection and dynamical modeling of radial velocity and transit data; data analysis through human-based computation and citizen science.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2012 (current), W. J. McDonald Fellow, University of Texas, Austin
• 2008-2012, Graduate Student Researcher, UC Santa Cruz
• 2010-2011, Research Analyst, VN7 Dynamic LP
• 2007-2009, Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz

EDUCATION

• 2012, Ph.D. Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 2008, M.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 2006, M.S. Astrophysics (highest honors), University of Bologna, Italy
• 2004, B.S. Astronomy (highest honors), University of Bologna, Italy (University of California, Santa Cruz, exchange student)

FIRST-AUTHOR PUBLICATIONS

• Meschiari, S., Planet Formation in Circumbinary Configurations: Turbulence Inhibits Planetesimal Accretion, 2012, ApJL
• Meschiari, S., , “Circumbinary planet formation in the Kepler-16 system. I. N-Body simulations”, 2012, ApJ
• Meschiari, S., et al., “The Lick-Carnegie Survey: Four New Exoplanet Candidates”, 2011, ApJ
• Meschiari, S., Laughlin, G., “Systemic: a testbed for characterizing the detection of extrasolar planets. II. Full solutions to the Transit Timing inverse problem”, 2010, ApJ
• Meschiari, S., Wolf, A. S., Rivera, E., Laughlin, G., Vogt, S., Butler, P., “Systemic: a testbed for characterizing the detection of extrasolar planets. I. The Systemic Console Package”, 2009, PASP
• Meschiari, S., Laughlin, G., “The Potential Impact of Groove Modes on Type II Planetary Migration”, 2008, ApJL
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Referee for MNRAS
• 2012, NASA Origins of Solar Systems Program, external reviewer

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2010, Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2008, Whitford Prize for research and coursework
• 2006, University of California, Regent’s Fellow