Mark Galassi
Mark Galassi | |
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Born |
January 8, 1965 Manhattan |
Nationality | American |
Mark Galassi grew up in France and Italy and currently lives in New Mexico.
Current Work
He works in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Research Scientist. There he has worked on the HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite, and the Muon tomography project.[1][2][3]
He has been involved in the GNU project since 1984 and the GNU Scientific Library. He is also currently the Vice-President and a Board Chairperson of the Software Freedom Conservancy.[4]
Education
He studied classics at the Liceo Classico Parini.
He attend Reed College in Portland Oregon where he got his BA in physics and completed his theses in 1986.[5] He then moved to Long Island to study at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. He earned his BA in Physics and finished his PhD in September 1992.[6]
He also worked for Cygnus Solutions and Red Hat writing software and documentation.[7]
References
- ↑ http://math.lanl.gov/Research/Publications/
- ↑ http://math.lanl.gov/~rick/Publications/
- ↑ http://www.genie.lanl.gov/publications/Publications.inc.html.orig
- ↑ https://sfconservancy.org/about/officers/
- ↑ http://academic.reed.edu/physics/theses.html
- ↑ http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/www/people
- ↑ http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/5.1/en/os/i386/gnome/docs/gnome-intro/index.html