Katrin Heitmann

Katrin Heitmann is the interim director of Argonne’s High Energy Physics division. She is also a physicist and computational scientist at Argonne, a senior associate for the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Scientific and Engineering Excellence. Before joining Argonne, Heitmann was a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her 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. Heitmann is a member of several major astrophysical surveys that aim to shed light on this question and has also served as the spokesperson for the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration.

Research Interests:

• Cosmology
• Study of dark energy, dark matter, and inflation
• High-performance computing