Simulating the Universe with 100,000 cores

Kris Beckwith: Curriculum Vitae

Nationality: British, United States Permanent Resident
Affiliation: JILA, University of Colorado @ Boulder
Position: Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Computational Astrophysics, Accretion Disks, Jet & Outflows,
Magnetohydrodynamics, Turbulence, General Relativity

Qualifications
  • MSCi Physics; First Class Honors; University of Durham; 2002
  • PhD; Relativistic Astrophysics; University of Durham; 2005
Synergistic & Departmental Activities
  • Athena code development team member
  • Co-organizer for CASA/JILA Departmental Seminar Series (2010–present)
  • Committee Member, NSF Review Panel for Computational Fluid Dynamics (2007–2008)
  • Referee for Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society; Astronomy & Astrophysics and The Astrophysical Journal & The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2005–present)
Research Grants
  • PI: ‘Structure of Magnetized Accretion Disks’; Teragrid High Performance Computing Allocation; Award: 12,000,000 hours; (2009−present)
  • Co-I & Science Contact: ‘Toward a First Principles Understanding of X-ray Binary State Transitions’; (PI: Phil Armitage); NASA ATP Program; Award: $550,000, (2011 − 2013)

Full Curriculum Vitae

My research has featured in the TeraGrid 2008 Science Highlights article
‘Assurances of Things Not Seen’

Recent Publications