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My name is Kan Chen (陈侃). I am a fourth-year PhD student at University College London (UCL), supervised by Dr. Mihkel Kama (UCL) and Dr. Paola Pinilla (UCL/MSSL). My research focuses on protoplanetary disks and planet-disk interactions, with the ultimate goal of better understanding how (exo)planets form and exploring whether our Earth and solar system are unique in the universe. I use numerical simulations to study how planets interact with their natal protoplanetary disks and link the simulation results to observations. I am also interested in common physical processes across different scales of structure in the universe.