Senior Associate, KICP
Physicist and Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
- Address:
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Phone:
- (630) 252-1114
- Email:
- heitmann@anl.gov
Background
Katrin Heitmann is a Physicist and Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the High Energy Physics Division. She is also a member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, and NAISE at Northwestern. Before joining Argonne, Katrin was a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. from the Technical University Dortmund in 2000.
Research
Katrin Heitmann's research currently focuses on computational cosmology, in particular on trying to understand the causes for the accelerated expansion of the Universe. She is responsible for large simulation campaigns with HACC and for the tools in the associated analysis library, CosmoTools. Katrin is a member of several major astrophysical surveys that aim to shed light on this question and is the currently the Computing Coordinator for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Dark Energy Science Collaboration.