Tom Abel
Professor at Stanford University
Pacifica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Abel is a computational astrophysicist and professor with 13+ years leading research and education at Stanford and SLAC, specializing in large-scale simulations of structure formation from cosmic to black-hole scales. He directs teams of students, postdocs and staff to develop and run adaptive mesh refinement, radiation hydrodynamics, reactive flows and collisionless plasma models that probe galaxy, star and cosmic magnetic-field evolution. His work bridges high-performance supercomputing and theoretical astrophysics, producing predictive models of first galaxies and dark-matter dynamics. Based in Pacifica, CA, he combines institute leadership experience (KIPAC director) with hands-on code development and mentoring, bringing rare depth in both numerical methods and physical intuition.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichMaster's degree (Diplom), Physics, Master's degree (Diplom), Physics at Universität Regensburg
German, English
Github Skills (39)
astronomy9
visualization9
mesh9
simulation9
simulations9
refinement9
scientific-visualization9
geophysics9
data-visualization8
oceanography8
finite-element-analysis8
python8
scientific-computing8
astrophysics8
julia6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yipihey/kNN-CDFs
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 9 months
yipihey/NoName
Feb 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
cosmologycomputational
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