I will be joining Rutgers University in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences as an Assistant Professor, starting January 2025. Please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in working with me.
Research Interests
I characterize myself as a planetary scientist / geodynamicist, interested in the origin and early evolution of terrestrial planets. My research centers on the question:
"How did our planet start to provide an environment that made life possible?"
My recent emphasis has been on the period between planetesimal formation and Giant-impact induced magma oceans. Despite the shortness of this period compared to the age of Earth, this period saw multiple critical events, including core formation, large-scale mantle melting and re-solidification, the generation of the first crust, and the formation of primitive atmosphere and oceans. My research group explores these processes through theoretical calculations and numerical modeling. Please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in joining our group!
Selected Publications:
Miyazaki, Y., and D.J. Stevenson, 2024 "The Stability of a Dense Crust Situated on Small Bodies," The Planetary Science Journal, 5, 192. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad65d2
Miyazaki, Y., and D.J. Stevenson, 2022 "A subsurface magma ocean on Io: Exploring the steady-state of partially molten planetary bodies," The Planetary Science Journal, 3, 256. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac9cd1
Miyazaki, Y., and J. Korenaga, 2022 "Inefficient water degassing inhibits ocean formation on rocky planets: An insight from self-consistent mantle degassing models," Astrobiology, 22, 713-734. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2021.0126
Miyazaki, Y., and J. Korenaga, 2022 "A wet heterogeneous mantle creates a habitable world in the Hadean," Nature, 603, 86-90. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04371-9
Miyazaki, Y., and J. Korenaga, 2021 "Dynamic evolution of major element chemistry in protoplanetary disks and its implications for Earth-enstatite chondrite connection," Icarus, 361, 114368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114368
Miyazaki, Y., and J. Korenaga, 2019 "On the timescale of magma ocean solidification and its chemical consequences, 1. Thermodynamic database for liquid at high pressures," Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 3382-3398.