Dr Philip Carter
MPhys, PhD
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I am a computational planetary scientist and astrophysicist. I study the growth of terrestrial planets and the collisions between planetary bodies that occur during planet formation.
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
School of Physics
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Biography
I have previously held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Bristol and in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis. During this time I have developed expertise in planet formation and collisions and the numerical techniques used to study planetary accretion.
My scientific background is in astrophysics, having obtained my PhD in 2014 from the University of Warwick, where I carried out observational studies of ultra-compact accreting binaries.
My scientific background is in astrophysics, having obtained my PhD in 2014 from the University of Warwick, where I carried out observational studies of ultra-compact accreting binaries.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2026A ‘New Hope’ for Moon Formation
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Forming Super-Mercuries by Giant Impact
Identifying the collisions that make extreme debris disks
Atmospheric loss during giant impacts
Atmospheric Loss during Giant Impacts: Mechanisms and Scaling of Near- and Far-field Loss
Planetary Science Journal
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