{"id":3856,"date":"2012-05-10T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:38:45","slug":"hilke-schlichting-wins-chancellors-award-for-postdoctoral-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=3856","title":{"rendered":"Hilke Schlichting wins Chancellor&#8217;s Award for Postdoctoral Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a May 10 reception held in the CNSI Auditorium, Earth &#038; Space Sciences&#8217; Hilke Schlichting was  awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdnet.ucla.edu\/deans\/event\/postdocshw.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2012 Chancellor\u2019s Award for Postdoctoral Research<\/a> at UCLA.  This award honors important postdoctoral contributions to the university&#8217;s interrelated missions of research, teaching, and public service.<\/p>\n<p>Hilke is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in the formation of planetary systems, and has been a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA since 2010. Her diverse research accomplishments at UCLA have addressed different aspects of the Kuiper Belt, which is a ring of a billion bodies located beyond Neptune, discovered in 1992 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ess.ucla.edu\/~jewitt\/David_Jewitt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Jewitt<\/a>, also of UCLA Earth &#038; Space Sciences. The Kuiper Belt is central to planet formation studies as a primordial relic of the accretion phase. It is also the source of short-period comets. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, Schlichting used Kuiper Belt binaries (double objects held together by gravity) to assess the outward motion of Neptune 4.5 billion years ago. She then formulated a collisional growth model to understand the size distribution of Kuiper belt objects, extending this model in another paper to account for velocity dispersion in a self-consistent way.  <\/p>\n<p>Stepping outside her \u201ctheoretical\u201d training, Hilke conducted a massive analysis of Hubble telescope data in search of occultation events, \ufb01nding two (to-date) in competition with much larger, international groups of observers who have so far found none. As a side-project, she discovered a simple explanation for a long-standing puzzle concerning the addition of late-added material on Earth (detected by geochemists) and, with ESS&#8217;s Paul Warren, wrote one of the few papers ever to have both dynamicists and geochemists as authors.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Hilke describing her research in the videos below:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09jYeadv7mk<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sugR_bKC7v8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ess.ucla.edu\/~hilke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hilke Schlichting&#8217;s Webpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a May 10 reception held in the CNSI Auditorium, Earth &#038; Space Sciences&#8217; Hilke Schlichting was awarded the 2012 Chancellor\u2019s Award for Postdoctoral Research at UCLA. This award honors important postdoctoral contributions to the university&#8217;s interrelated missions of research, teaching, and public service. Hilke is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in the formation of planetary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=3856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hilke Schlichting wins Chancellor&#8217;s Award for Postdoctoral Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13212,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/13212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}