Benjamin Idini

Education:

B.S., Civil Engineering, Universidad de Chile; M.S., Earthquake Engineering, Universidad de Chile; M.S., Geophysics, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology

Dissertation:

Earthquakes and the new paradigm of diluted cores in gas giant planets

Thesis Advisor:

David Stevenson, Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Research Topic:

Structure and evolution of solar system Ocean Worlds

Mentor:

Jonathan Fortney, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position:

Vera Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz

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