Roman Rafikov is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics research group. His current research interests include (but are not limited to) the following areas:

exoplanets (around single and binary stars; young, main sequence, and evolved stars)
planet formation and dynamics
astrophysical fluid dynamics
accretion disks (protoplanetary, disks in binaries, quasars, etc.)
N-body and galactic dynamics
high-energy astrophysics