Lia Hankla
NHFP Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Maryland
Brentwood, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolLia Hankla is an NHFP Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow and plasma astrophysicist with nine years of research experience probing turbulence, magnetic fields, and general relativity in plasmas around black holes. Trained at Princeton (AB) and Colorado Boulder (PhD), she blends analytical theory, large-scale simulations, and hands-on coding to tackle dynamo mechanisms and relativistic turbulence, with work supported by a Fulbright and presented at major conferences. Known for taking on intellectually bold problems, she mentors students and communicates complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences. Outside the lab she applies the same experimental curiosity to hardware projects—like a Raspberry Pi–controlled cheese-fridge PID loop—and to scouting the best local coffee shops, revealing a practical tinkerer who pairs deep theory with real-world problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Arts - AB Physics, Bachelor of Arts - AB Physics at Princeton University
German, French, English
Github Skills (4)
radiation4
temperature4
climate-science3
mercury3
Github contributions (5)
jadexter/ebhlight
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Two-temperature General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics
Contributions:66 commits, 1 branch in 2 months
relativisticradiationmercurymagnetohydrodynamicstemperature
ahankla/thesisDocs
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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