Rate My Professor Nevin Weinberg

Weinberg's research interests encompass stellar fluid dynamics, tidal physics, compact object binaries, short-period exoplanets, X-ray bursts, and asteroseismology. As principal investigator, he has received substantial funding from NSF and NASA, including NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics grant 2107218 for Spectral and Radiation Hydrodynamic Models of Photospheric Radius Expansion X-ray Bursts (2021–2025, $237,464), NSF grant 2054353 for Dynamical Tides in Close Stellar Binaries and Exoplanetary Systems (2020–2025, $481,538), NASA Astrophysics Theory Program grant 80NSSC21K0493 for Influence of nonlinear wave dynamics on the asteroseismic properties of post-main-sequence stars (2021–2026, $594,089), and NASA grant NNX14AB40G for Tidal Evolution of Coalescing Compact Binaries, Short Period Exoplanets, and Rotating Stars (2014–2018, $615,233). His honors include the Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholarship in Physics (2019–2022) and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2000–2003). Notable publications include “Dynamical tide modified Roche limit in eccentric, asynchronous binaries” (Yu et al., 2025), “Tidally Torn: Why the Most Common Stars May Lack Large, Habitable-Zone Moons” (Patel et al., 2025), “Statistics and Habitability of F-type Star–Planet Systems” (Patel et al., 2024, ApJS), “Orbital Decay of Hot Jupiters due to Weakly Nonlinear Tidal Dissipation” (Weinberg et al., 2024, ApJ), and “Resonant Mode Coupling in δ Scuti Stars” (Mourabit & Weinberg, 2023, ApJ). Weinberg's contributions elucidate nonlinear tidal effects on hot Jupiter orbital evolution, gravitational waveforms from neutron star inspirals, resonant mode coupling in pulsating stars, and habitability in F-type star systems.