Prof/Dr Aleksandra Kuznetsova

Department of Physics

University of Connecticut

email: astro [dot] kuznetsova [at] gmail [dot] com

uconn email: aleksandra [dot] kuznetsova [at] uconn [dot] edu

Employment

(Aug 2024 --) Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

(Sept 2023-2024) Flatiron Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute

(Sept 2020-2023) Sagan Fellow, American Museum of Natural History

(June-Sept 2020) Graduate Museum Intern, Adler Planetarium

(May 2020) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

Education

(2020) PhD.  Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Michigan, Advisor: Lee Hartmann

(2020) Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Michigan

(2016) M.S.  Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Michigan

(2014) B.S. Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

(2014) B.A. Geological Sciences, University of Rochester

(2014) Minor Mathematics, University of Rochester

Select Publications

1. "Anisotropic Infall and Substructure formation in Embedded Disks" (Kuznetsova, A., Bae, J., Hartmann, L., Mac-Low, M. M., 2022) ApJ.

2. "Gravity or turbulence V: star-forming regions undergoing violent relaxation" (Bonilla-Barroso, A., Ballesteros-Paredes, J., Hernández, J.,  Aguilar, L., Zamora-Avilés, M.,  Hartmann, L., Kuznetsova, A., Camacho, V., Lora, V., 2022) MNRAS.

3. "Angular Momenta, Magnetization, and Accretion of Protostellar Cores" (Kuznetsova, A., Hartmann, L., Heitsch, F., 2020) ApJ. 

4. "The Origins of Protostellar Core Angular Momenta" (Kuznetsova, A., Hartmann, L., Heitsch, F., 2019) ApJ.

5. "The Role of Gravity in Producing Power-law Mass Functions" (Kuznetsova, A., Hartmann, L., Heitsch, F., Ballesteros-Paredes, J., 2018)  ApJ

6. "On Estimating Angular Momenta of Infalling Protostellar Cores From Observations" (Zhang, S., Hartmann, L., Zamora-Aviles, M., Kuznetsova, A., 2018) MNRAS

7. "Kinematics and Structure of Star-Forming Regions: Insights from Cold Collapse Models" (Kuznetsova, A., Hartmann, L., Ballesteros-Paredes, J., 2018) MNRAS

8. "Gravitational Focusing and the Star Cluster Initial Mass Function" (Kuznetsova, A., Hartmann, L., Burkert, A., 2017) ApJ

9. "Signatures of Star Formation by Cold Collapse" (Kuznetsova, A., Hartmann, L., Ballesteros-Paredes, J., 2015) ApJ

10. "Bondi-Hoyle-Littleton Accretion and the Upper Mass Stellar IMF" (Ballesteros-Paredes, J., Hartmann, L., Perez-Goytia, N., Kuznetsova