CAMILLE LANDRI

Hi, I’m Camille!(they/them)

I am an astrophysicist, currently a postdoc at KU Leuven ~

I am a computational astrophysicist working at KU Leuven, Belgium. I study binary star interactions and chemical processes in stellar environments.

Through a combination of hydrodynamics, radiative transfer, and chemistry simulations, I investigate how binary interactions, chemistry, and dust formation shape stellar winds around cool giant stars. Currently, I’m working on implementing chemistry emulation in 3D hydrodynamics simulations of stellar winds!

I also dabble in graphic design and enjoy creating various visual elements and diagrams to illustrate my research.

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I study complex stellar environment where multiple physical processes play important roles

The dynamics of winds around cool giant stars are dictated by hydrodynamics, chemical reactions, radiation fields and companion interactions.

To model this complex interplay, I combine different methods to gradually build more accurate 3D models that can be compared with observations.

The current pipeline of these models uses three main steps:

  1. building the hydrodynamics model of the stellar winds
  2. Running MACE on the resulting model to calculate fast and accurate molecular abundances
  3. Using Magritte to synthesise observables that can be compared with current ALMA observations

To produce stellar models, I work with many different codes.

I use the smoothed particle hydrodynamics code Phantom to simulate stellar winds, and the adaptive mesh hydrodynamics code FLASH for stellar interiors.

I use the chemistry package KROME and the chemistry emulator MACE to simulate chemistry in stellar outflow.

I use the radiative transfer code Magritte to synthesise observables from my models to be compared with molecular spectral lines and ALMA channel maps.