Understanding Planetary Formation: Design in Planet Formation

by Jeff Zweerink

Audio CD

Published January 1, 2007

About the author

Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink is a senior research scholar at Reasons to Believe (RTB). He earned a BS in physics and a PhD in astrophysics from Iowa State University with a focus on gamma rays. Postdoctoral research in gamma rays led him to the University of California, Riverside.

Zweerink still holds a part-time project scientist position at UCLA and is working on GAPS, a balloon experiment seeking to detect dark matter. He is also a coauthor of more than 30 academic papers published in peer-reviewed journals such as Astrophysical Journal, Astroparticle Physics, and Astrobiology.