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Professor Henrik Nils Latter

Career

  • 2022 -          :  Professor, DAMTP, Cambridge
  • 2012 - 2022 :  University Lecturer, DAMTP, Cambridge
  • 2012 -          :  Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge
  • 2010 - 2012 :  Research Associate, DAMTP, Cambridge
  • 2007 - 2010 :  Postdoctoral Researcher, ENS, Paris

Research

Henrik is a member of the Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics research group. His current research interests are

  • Protoplanetary disks and planet formation
  • The magnetohydrodynamics of accretion disks
  • Instabilities, waves, and turbulence
  • Structure formation in Saturn's rings

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Publications

High-resolution models of the vertical shear instability
G Lesur, H Latter, GI Ogilvie
– Astronomy & Astrophysics
(2025)
703,
a225
(doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555944)
On the numerical convergence of MRI simulations
T Jannaud, HN Latter
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2025)
staf1966
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf1966)
Global linear analysis of the magneto-thermal instability in a stratified spherical model of the intracluster medium
JM Kempf, H Latter
– Astronomy & Astrophysics
(2025)
703,
a83
(doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202555843)
Instability and vertical eccentricity variation in global hydrodynamic disk simulations
JW Dewberry, HN Latter, GI Ogilvie, S Fromang
– Open Journal of Astrophysics
(2025)
8,
(doi: 10.33232/001c.146332)
Global magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the inner regions of protoplanetary discs. I. Zero-net flux regime
MJO Roberts, HN Latter, G Lesur
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2025)
544,
1284
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf1672)
Local three-dimensional simulations of the convective overstability in protoplanetary discs
RJ Teed, HN Latter
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2025)
542,
456
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf1239)
The PLATO mission
H Rauer, C Aerts, J Cabrera, M Deleuil, A Erikson, L Gizon, M Goupil, A Heras, T Walloschek, J Lorenzo-Alvarez, F Marliani, C Martin-Garcia, JM Mas-Hesse, L O’Rourke, H Osborn, I Pagano, G Piotto, D Pollacco, R Ragazzoni, G Ramsay, S Udry, T Appourchaux, W Benz, A Brandeker, M Güdel et al.
– Experimental Astronomy
(2025)
59,
26
(doi: 10.1007/s10686-025-09985-9)
The vertical shear instability in protoplanetary discs as an outwardly travelling wave - I. Linear theory
GI Ogilvie, HN Latter, G Lesur
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2025)
537,
3349
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/staf154)
The physical mechanism of the streaming instability
N Magnan, T Heinemann, HN Latter
– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
(2024)
534,
3944
(doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae1978)
The physical mechanism of the streaming instability, and whether it works in vortices
N Magnan, T Heinemann, H Latter
(2024)
(doi: 10.5194/epsc2024-464)
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Research Group

Astrophysics

Email

hl278@cam.ac.uk

Room

F1.19

Telephone

01223 337907

Personal homepage

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/hl278/

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