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A star cluster simulation (credit: Inti Pelupessy)

A star cluster simulation coupling N-body dynamics and stellar evolution using the Astrophysical Multi-purpose Software Environment (credit: Inti Pelupessy).

Dr Tjarda Boekholt

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Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics at RPC
tjarda.boekholt@physics.ox.ac.uk
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A brief history

I am a computational astrophysicist affiliated with the at the , UK. My position is Post-doc Research Assistant in the ERC funded project with PI Prof. . My main research interests are computational N-body methods and the dynamical evolution of planetary and dense stellar systems.

I obtained my BSc in Astronomy in 2009 and my MSc in 2011 both at , Netherlands. My PhD thesis titled "" was under supervision of Prof. and co-promotor Prof. . My first post-doc position was in the at the University of Concepcion in Chile, in collaboration with Prof. , Prof. and Prof. . Then followed a period in Portugal where I started a collaboration with Prof. as an fellow, which took me from , to . Besides the FCT, I have also successfully applied for the and the fellowships, as well as the organised by . 

Research interests

Computational astrophysics
Stellar dynamics
Planetary dynamics
Chaos
Gravitational wave sources
Binaries and triples
Solar System
Star cluster formation

Selected publications

Relativistic Pythagorean three-body problem

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 104:8 (2021) ARTN 083020
Tjarda CN Boekholt, Arend Moerman, Simon F Portegies Zwart

Gargantuan chaotic gravitational three-body systems and their irreversibility to the Planck length

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91探花 University Press 493:3 (2020) 3932-3937
TCN Boekholt, SF Portegies Zwart, M Valtonen

Formation of massive seed black holes via collisions and accretion

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91探花 University Press 476:1 (2018) 366-380
TCN Boekholt, Drg Schleicher, M Fellhauer, Rs Klessen, B Reinoso, Am Stutz, L Haemmerle

The origin of chaos in the orbit of comet 1P/Halley

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91探花 University Press 461:4 (2016) 3576-3584
TCN Boekholt, Fi Pelupessy, Dc Heggie, SF Portegies Zwart
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