Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (since July 2002)
Ph.D. from the University of Washington: supervised by Thomas Quinn and George Lake (2000)
Research Interests
dark matter structure formation in the Universe
rocky planet formation via collisional growth and gas accretion
hydrodynamical galaxy and planet formation simulations
long term stability of planetary systems
Simulation Software and Data
parallel N-body tree-codes pkdgrav (with Tom Quinn) and pkdgrav2 (with Doug Potter)
SPH-code GASOLINE (built on pkdgrav, with James Wadsley)
TreeSyMBA (with Ryuji Morishima) and GENGA (with Simon Grimm): rocky planet formation
analysis tools for N-body simulations
High Performance Computing
new algorithms for load balancing problems on large parallel computing systems