Patrick Wells

Patrick is a cosmologist and software engineer working to develop tools for analyzing modern petabyte-scale astronomical datasets. His day-to-day work at Argonne focuses on adapting high-performance computing systems systems to provide services that enables astrophysicists  to conduct science at scale without worrying about managing data or computing resources. He is a member of the TDCOSMO collaboration, which uses strong lensing to constrain cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant. Patrick uses his software to study the local environments of these lenses and provide estimations of the impact of external structures on the results inferred from the strong lens itself. He also has broader interests in cosmological structure, weak lensing, and computational science.