Thomas W. Baumgarte

Thomas W. Baumgarte
Born 1966 (age 51–52)
Johannesburg
Nationality German
Alma mater Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Scientific career
Fields Numerical relativity
Institutions Bowdoin College
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thomas W. Baumgarte (born 1966) is a German physicist specializing in the numerical simulation of compact objects in general relativity.

Career

Baumgarte completed his BSc in 1992 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and his PhD in 1995 also at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[1] He worked as aa postdoc at Cornell and University of Illinois and is currently a professor of physics at Bowdoin College and an associate professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author over 65 articles about general relativity and astrophysics, for example black holes, neutron stars, and gravitational collapse. In 2010, along with Stuart L. Shapiro, he published a book on numerical relativity. In 2012 he received the Bessel Prize.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Thomas W. Baumgarte : Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Bowdoin.edu. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
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