Teaching — Apurva V. Oza

A decade of graduate teaching on three continents (Caltech, Bern, IIA Bangalore), an open-source modeling ecosystem (DISHOOM, SERPENS), and an active group of students and collaborators across nine countries.

Astrobiology

Caltech

Life in the universe from first principles: energy, water, and the chemistry that connects ocean worlds like Europa and Titan to habitability beyond Earth.

Planet Formation & Evolution

Graduate · University of Bern · with Prof. Yann Alibert

From protoplanetary disks to mature systems: accretion, migration, atmospheres, and the evolutionary physics that shapes planets and their moons.

Radiative Transfer

2027

The propagation of light through planetary atmospheres and exospheres — the theoretical backbone of every spectrum we interpret, from Io's SO₂ to exoplanet transits.

Introduction to Planetary Astrophysics

Undergraduate/Graduate · Indian Institute of Astrophysics & Raman Research Institute

A first rigorous tour of planetary systems: orbits, atmospheres, interiors, and detection — taught in Bangalore's summer schools.

Earlier: instructor/TA at the University of Virginia ("Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe") and UNC Chapel Hill ("[Skynet] Astronomy 101L: Our Place in Space").