Dr. Amit Levi

1.  A. Levi & M. Podolak, "Corona-like atmospheric escape from KBOs I. Gas dynamics". Icarus 202 (2009) 681-693.
2.  A. Levi & M. Podolak, "Corona-like atmospheric escape from KBOs II. The behavior of aerosols". Icarus 203 (2009) 610-625.
3.  A. Levi and M. Podolak, "Estimating the Density of Intermediate Size KBOs
   from Considerations of Volatile Retention". Icarus 214 (2011) 308-315.
4.  A. Levi, D. Sasselov & M. Podolak," Volatile Transport Inside Super-Earths by
   Entrapment in the Water-Ice Matrix". The Astrophysical Journal, 769:29 (9 pp),
   2013
5.  A. Levi, D. Sasselov & M. Podolak, "Structure and Dynamics of Cold Water
   Super-Earths: The Case of Occluded CH4 and its Outgassing". The Astrophysical
   Journal, 792:125 (44pp), 2014
6. A. Levi, D. Sasselov & M. Podolak, "The Abundance of Atmospheric CO2 in
   Ocean Exoplanets: A Novel CO2 Deposition Mechanism". The Astrophysical
   Journal, 838:24 (45pp), 2017
7.  A. Levi, S.J. Kenyon, M. Podolak & D. Prialnik, "H-Atmospheres of Icy Super-
   Earths Formed in situ in the Outer Solar System: An Application to a Possible
   Planet Nine". The Astrophysical Journal, 839:111 (11pp), 2017
8.  A. Levi & D. Sasselov, “A New Desalination Pump Helps Define the pH of
   Ocean Worlds”, The Astrophysical Journal, 857:65 (23pp), 2018
9.  R. M. Ramirez & A. Levi, “The Ice Cap Zone: a unique habitable zone for ocean
   worlds” – Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 477, Issue
   4, Pages 4627-4640, 2018
10.  Li Zeng, Stein B. Jacobsen, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Michail I. Petaev, Andrew
    Vanderburg, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Juan Perez-Mercader, Thomas R.
    Mattsson, Gongjie Li, Matthew Z. Heising, Aldo S. Bonomo, Mario
    Damasso, Travis A. Berger, Hao Cao, Amit Levi, and Robin D. Wordsworth,
    “Growth model interpretation of planet size distribution”- Proceedings of the
    National Academy of Sciences, 116 (20), 9723-9728, 2019
11.  A. Levi & R. E. Cohen, “The Equation of State of MH-III: a possible deep CH4
    reservoir in Titan, Super-Titan exoplanets and moons”, The Astrophysical Journal,
    882:71, 2019
12.  Li Zeng, Stein B. Jacobsen, Eugenia Hyung, Amit Levi, Chantanelle Nava, James
    Kirk, Caroline Piaulet, Gaia Lacedelli, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Michail I. Petaev,
    Sarah T. Stewart,
    Munazza K. Alam, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Mario Damasso,
    and David W. Latham
    – “New Perspectives on Exoplanet Radius Gap from a
    Mathematica Tool and Visualized Water EOS” – The Astrophysical Journal,
    volume 923, 247 (2021)
13.  A. Levi & D. Sasselov, “Partitioning of Atmospheric O2 Into High-Pressure Ice in
    Ocean Worlds” – The astrophysical journal, volume 926, 72 (2022)
14.  A. Levi, A. Bansal* & D. Sasselov, “A High-Pressure Filled Ice in The H2O-CO2-
    CH4 System: With Possible Consequences for The CO2-CH4 Biosignature Pair” –
    The astrophysical journal, 944 (2), 209 (2023) (* – written with my student as part
    of her senior thesis project).
15.  M. Podolak, A. Levi, A. Vazan & U. Malamud, “ An equation of state of CO for
    use in planetary modeling” – Icarus, 394 115424 (2023)

Senior Lecturer 2022 – present

Braude College of Engineering

• Research Associate 2018 – 2022

Origins of Life Initiative – Astronomy Department

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

• Postdoctoral Fellow 2015 – 2018

Origins of Life Initiative – Astronomy Department

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

• Harvard Fellow 2014 – 2015

Astronomy Department

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Model the transport of volatiles in planetary mantles and interior-surface-atmosphere

mass exchange.

• Ab initio study of Earth and planetary materials using atomistic simulations.

Physical chemistry and material science of planets, physics of Ice, gas hydrates

and modeling liquid and solid aqueous solutions using electronic structure

modeling and force field methods.

• Mantle dynamics and tectonics. Convective flow, boundary layers, plate

tectonics, thermal evolution of planets, and how this affects atmospheric

outgassing.