Nick Ballering

Greetings! I am a professional astronomer working as a Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute. I'm based in Charlottesville, Virginia and hold a Visiting Scholar appointment at the University of Virginia.

 

My research interests revolve around exoplanetary systems. How do they form? What are their architectures? Do they have the materials needed for life? I am working to answer these questions by observing and modeling the structure and composition of circumstellar disks.

​

From 2012 to 2014 I wrote for Astrobites, a daily blog summarizing recent and exciting scientific papers. See my astrobites here.