Thomas W. Baumgarte

Thomas W. Baumgarte
Thomas W. Baumgarte
Born	1966 (age 54–55); Lucerne
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Spouse(s)	Karen Topp
Children	Dublin Baumgarte-Topp
	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]

Baumgarte is married to Karen Topp, who is also a professor at Bowdoin College.[3]

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