Ajay B. Limaye 🔊
B.A., Geophysics, UC-Berkeley (2007)
Ph.D., Planetary Sciences, Caltech (2015)
Ajay B. Limaye is an Assistant Professor in the UVA Department of Environmental Sciences. He studies the evolution of landscapes on Earth and other planets, focusing on the role of rivers. Current research topics include river forms, dynamics and deposits; landscape and sedimentary records of climate on Mars and Titan; and feedbacks between landslides and ecology in central Virginia. Tools for this work include remote sensing, geospatial analysis, numerical modeling and laboratory experiments.
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Youwei Wang
Ph.D., Delft Univ. of Technology (2021)
Since joining the group in March 2022, Youwei has led efforts to develop the Landscape Evolution Lab and has continuing interests in using models to link surface processes and sedimentary products.
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Dimitri Bandou
Ph.D., Univ. Bern, Switzerland (2023)
Dimitri’s graduate work focused on buried glaciated valleys in the Swiss Alps. Since joining the group in September 2023, Dimitri has been working to uncover how valleys carved by glaciers differ from those formed excavated by rivers.
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Graduate Students
Abby Ackerman
B.A., Bryn Mawr College (2017)
Abby started her M.S. research in Fall 2023, focusing on interactions between landslides and tree communities in central Virginia.
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Vidushi Sharma
M.S., Panjab Univ. Chandigarh, India (2020)
Vidushi started her Ph.D. work in Fall 2022, focusing on spatial trends in valley morphology.
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Past group members
Undergraduate students (Distinguished Majors Program only):
Medha Prakash (B.A., 2023), now Graduate student, Univ. Texas at Austin
Victoria Thompson (B.A., 2024), now Graduate student, Duke Univ.
Graduate students:
Jake Smith (M.S., 2022), now at Apex Clean Energy (Charlottesville, VA)
Ariana Flournoy (M.S., 2024), now at Washington State Department of Natural Resources (Olympia, WA)
Yuan Li (Ph.D., 2024), now postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Indiana Univ.
Postdoctoral researchers:
Hongbo Ma, now Assistant Professor, Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua Univ. (China)