Sarah Stewart’s research group investigates the formation and evolution of planetary bodies. Our primary techniques are shock wave experiments to measure material properties and numerical simulations of planetary processes. We tackle a broad range of problems in planetary science and shock physics, focusing on understanding the feedbacks between physical processes and changes in material properties.
Sarah is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
She is a member of the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe (MotU) collaboration and on the executive committee for the Facility for Open Research in a Compressed Environment (FORCE).
Sarah’s bio and CV
Opportunities
The Stewart Group is seeking new graduate students and postdocs. Please email Sarah for additional information.
Moon-themed podcasts with Sarah:
Radiolab and TED Radio Hour.
CrashCourse Episode: How did Earth form?
Check out the Stewart Group YouTube Video Stream
DOE-NNSA Center for Matter under Extreme Conditions
Sarah Stewart is a Co-PI and Deputy Director of CMEC. CMEC focuses on addressing major science problems in plasma and high energy density physics while training the next generation of leaders in physics. The Center is led by Professor Farhat Beg at U. California San Diego.
NSF Physics Frontiers Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures
Sarah Stewart is a co-PI in the CMAP NSF Center. The center focuses on understanding the physical nature of matter at extreme compression. The CMAP Director is Professor Gilbert Collins at U. Rochester.
Open Science Initiatives
Sarah is a co-founder of the impacts.wiki initiative. Her group follows the philosophy of open science, such as implementing workflow processes recommended by NASA’s Transform to Open Science program. She is also working on a new public high-pressure equation of state community compendium.
Sarah shares her group’s research products on GitHub: S. T. Stewart, Impacts Wiki, Stewart Group