Wladimir Lyra
Associate Professor
New Mexico State University
Department of Astronomy
PO Box 30001, MSC 4500 Las Cruces, NM 88003
wlyra - nospam - nmsu.edu
+1 575-646-1400
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Curriculum Vitae
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Education
| Uppsala University, Sweden | Astronomy | Ph.D., 2009 |
| Uppsala University, Sweden | Astronomy | Ph.Lic. (M.Sc. equiv), 2007 |
| Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Astronomy | B.Sc., 2003 |
Relevant Employment
| Apr 2022 - | Associate Professor | New Mexico State University |
| Aug 2019 - Apr 2022 | Assistant Professor | New Mexico State University |
| Aug 2015 - Aug 2019 | Assistant Professor | California State University, Northridge |
| Dec 2011 - Fev 2015 | Sagan fellow | NASA/JPL-Caltech, Pasadena CA |
| Nov 2009 - Dec 2011 | Postdoctoral researcher | AMNH, New York NY
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| Apr 2009 - Oct 2009 | Research assistant | MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Oct 2004 - Mar 2009 | Graduate researcher | Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden |
| Jul 2003 - Jul 2004 | Research assistant | CTIO, La Serena, Chile |
| ESO, Garching, Germany | ||
| Lisbon Observatory, Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Jun 2002 - Aug 2002 | Summer research intern | STScI, Baltimore MD, USA |
| Apr 2000 - Jun 2003 | Undergraduate researcher | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
Grants
Total as PI or Institutional PI: $5,568,000
| National Science Foundation | PI NSF-AAG ($450k) | 2025 |
| NASA Emerging Worlds | Inst PI EW ($754k) Science PI Sengupta | 2023 |
| NASA Exoplanet Research Program | Inst PI XRP ($531k) Science PI Carrera | 2023 |
| NASA Emerging Worlds | Inst PI EW ($547k) Science PI Carrera | 2023 |
| NASA Emerging Worlds | PI EW($366k) | 2021 |
| NASA Theory and Computational Astrophysical Networks | PI TCAN($1.3M) | 2020 |
| National Science Foundation | PI NSF - AAG ($324k) | 2020 |
| NASA New Frontiers and Data Analysis Program | co-I NFDAP ($240k) PI Chanover | 2019 |
| NASA Exoplanets Research Program | co-I XRP ($130k) PI Willacy | 2018 |
| National Radioastronomy Observatory | Inst PI ngVLA ($81k), Science PI Ricci | 2017 |
| NASA Exoplanets Research Program | PI XRP ($250k) | 2016 |
| Space Telescope Science Institute | PI Hubble Cycle 24 ($134k) | 2016 |
| National Science Foundation | PI NSF - AAG ($461k) | 2010 |
Computer allocation
| XSEDE | 100k SU (6.8M CPU hours; equiv $25k) | 2021 |
| 80k SU (5M CPU hours; equiv $20k) | 2020 | |
| 12k SU (supplement) | 2020 | |
| 64k SU (3M CPU hours; equiv $17k) | 2019 | |
| 800k CPU hours (equiv $4k) | 2018 | |
| 800k CPU hours (equiv $30k) | 2017 | |
| 800k CPU hours (equiv $30k) | 2016 | |
| Teragrid | 600k CPU hours (equiv $22k) | 2013 |
Other grants
| International Astronomical Union | Office of Astronomy for Development (€10k) | 2019 |
| American Physical Society | US-India Travel Grant Program ($4k) | 2018 |
| International Astronomical Union | Office of Astronomy for Development (€10k) | 2017 |
| California State University | Probationary Faculty Support Program ($5k) | 2016 |
| American Museum of Natural History | Kalbfleisch postdoctoral fellowship | 2009 |
| European Science Foundation | Grant to organize Pencil meeting (€5k) | 2009 |
| German Science Foundation | Grant to organize Pencil meeting (€5k) | 2009 |
| Uppsala University | Travel (10k SEK), Håkansson foundation | 2008 |
| Travel (10k SEK), Liljwalchs foundation | 2007 | |
| Anna & Allan Löfbergs foundation | 2004-2006 | |
| Brazilian Research Council | Undergraduate research grant | 2000-2003 |
Honors and Awards
| NMSU College of Arts and Sciences | S.P. Manasse and Margaret Manasse Endowed Fund Award | 2025 |
| NMSU Teaching Academy | Truly Innovative Teaching Award | 2023 |
| NMSU College of Arts and Sciences | Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Teaching | 2023 |
| NMSU College of Arts and Sciences | Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Research | 2022 |
| NMSU College of Arts and Sciences | Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Outreach | 2021 |
| Japanese Society for the Progress of Science | Visiting fellow at Nagoya University | 2016 |
| NASA Exoplanet Science Institute | Sagan fellowship ($309k) | 2011 |
Experience as supervisor
- As faculty
- Ph.D. students: Eleanor Serviss, Olivia Brouillette, Leopold Hutnik, Daniel Godines, Harrison Cook, Ali Hyder.
- M.Sc. students: Sarah Chinski, Manuel Canas, Areli Castrejon, Vincent Carpenter, Leonardo Sattler-Cassara, Alexandra Yep.
- Undergraduates: Sean Snyder, Areli Castrejon.
- High-school interns: Blake Hord.
- As a postdoc
- Ph.D. students co-advised to publication: Alexander Richert, Brandon Horn, Natalie Raettig.
- Undergraduate theses co-advised to completion: Leonardo Sattler, Joseph Cullen, Heidar Thrastarson, Peter Schmidt, Anna Önehag, Anders Eriksson.
- Undergraduate summer interns: Leonardo Sattler, Joseph Cullen, Adam Ball.
Service and Synergistic Activities
- Conference organizer
- Planets in the Desert, Las Cruces NM, 2022.
- Numerical Models of Planet-Disk Interaction, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2017.
- SOC of ExSoCal (Exoplanets in Southern California) 2017.
- Phase Transitions in Astrophysics, Nordita, Stockholm, 2017.
- SOC of ExSoCal (Exoplanets in Southern California) 2016.
- Co-organizer of Pencil Code Meeting 2010, New York, NY, USA.
- Organizer of Pencil Code Meeting 2009, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Organizer of Workshop ``Turbulence-Assisted Planetary Growth'', 2009, Uppsala, Sweden.
- Member of LOC of Nobel Symposium 135: Physics of Planetary Systems, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Outreach (see outreach section).
- Computation: Co-developer (since 2005), and co-owner (since 2009) of the Pencil Code, a high-order finite-difference parallel code for MHD turbulence. Steering Commitee from 2016-2010.
- Panels: Chair for NASA panels; review panel member for NSF, NASA, and HST. External reviewer for Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, Austrian Science Fund, Polish Academy of Sciences, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Chilean National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, Dutch Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation.
- Journal reviewer: Referee for A&A, MNRAS, ApJ, Nature, PSS, Science, AEJ.
- Book reviewer: Referee for Cambridge Press.
- AAS Agent for NMSU (2023-)
- AAS board member for WGLE/SGMA (2013-2016)
- AAS Warner/Pierce prize selection committee (2022-)
Computer experience
- Operating system: GNU/Linux, Mac OS X
- Programming proficiency
- Python, Fortran 90, IDL, HTML (fluent)
- C, Awk, Linux/C-shell, IRAF (good)
- Java, Perl (beginner)
Language Proficiency
- Portuguese (native)
- English, Spanish (fluent)
- Swedish, French (conversational)
- German, Italian, Danish, Norwegian (reading)