Einstein Toolkit Maintainers

The Einstein Toolkit is comprised of a core set of software components whose development and support is overseen by the Einstein Toolkit Maintainers. Additional components are developed and supported by individuals and groups in coordination with the maintainers. The Maintainers mandate is to:

  1. Oversee the architecture of the Einstein Toolkit.
  2. Ensure software quality and verification across the Einstein Toolkit.
  3. Oversee the inclusion of software components in the Einstein Toolkit. This includes new software components to be developed in the Consortium as part of the core Einstein Toolkit and the vetting of software contributed as external components.
  4. Ensure that appropriate individuals have privileges to check software into the EinsteinToolkit.org repository.

The Einstein Toolkit Maintainers can be contacted at maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org, the maintainers are:

Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University. Gabrielle's research interests are design of community-centric programming environments and tools for large scale applications in relativisitic astrophysics and other fields. Gabrielle is also interested in the development of pedagogical tools for computational science.
Tanja Bode is a postdoc at the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Tanja's interests are in exploring relativistic astrophysical phenomena in general relativity's strong regime through numerical studies of binary compact object systems and highly dynamical single black hole systems.
Peter Diener is an assistant research professor at the Center for Computation & Technology and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Louisiana State University. He is interested in relativistic astrophysics and specializes in binary black hole simulations.
Roland Haas is a postdoc at the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Roland's research work focuses on the simulation of gravitational waves generated by both comparable mass and extreme mass-ratio binaries.
Ian Hinder is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics where he leads the black hole team. Ian is the main developer of the Kranc package that generates Cactus thorns for solving partial differential equations.
Frank Löffler is IT consultant at the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. His main interests are the dynamics of compact binary systems and core-collapse simulations. Frank Löffler is leading the Einstein Toolkit. Within the computational source, he is responsible for the core hydrodynamics thorns in the Einstein Toolkit. Frank also contributes to the data and I/O aspects of the Einstein Toolkit cyberinfrastructure efforts.
Bruno Mundim is a postdoc in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His main interest is in studying the dynamics of compact star binaries. His PhD thesis work was in Boson Star binaries and he is currently part of a collaboration (CIGR) to investigate the dynamics of Black Hole-Neutron Star binaries. He is interested in developing astrophysically realistic initial data for numerical simulations of Black-Hole binaries.
Christian D. Ott is an Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics in the TAPIR group at Caltech. He specializes in simulations of stellar collapse, core-collapse supernovae, black hole formation, and gamma-ray bursts. He is also active in LSU/CCT's petascale computational science efforts and is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that is searching for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources.
Erik Schnetter is Research Technologies Group Lead at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada and also assistant research professor at the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University. Erik's scientific interests lie in high performance computing and relativistic astrophysics. Erik is the lead architect for the Cactus Framework and the originator the Carpet infrastructure.