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)

• 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

• 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

• new algorithms for load balancing problems on large parallel computing systems
• zBoxes: our “in-house” parallel computers
• using GPUs for large and small N-body simulations
• running simulations on some of the largest computers in the world
• Some howto info on various HPC resources around UZH.

• undergraduate course (SPIN) on using computer simulations in the natural sciences
• occasional lecturer on mechanics and other astrophysical and computing topics

• cardio-sports fan and occasional competitor