Draft:Harald Pfeiffer (Physicist)
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Harald Pfeiffer (* 1974) is a German Astrophysicist and lecturer at the University of Potsdam
Life and Work
[edit]Pfeiffer attended the Steigerwald-Landschulheim Wiesentheid. In 1993 he won a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad.From 1994 to 1997 he studied physics at the University of Bayreuth and from 1997 to 1998 at the University of Cambridge. He then studied at Cornell University from 1998 to 2003, where he graduated with a Ph.D. (2003) to 2009 he worked at the California Institute of Technology. He then taught at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto.
Since 2017, he has been group leader in the Department of Astrophysical and Cosmological Theory of Relativity at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and a professor at the University of Potsdam.[1]
Research Interests
[edit]Pfeiffer conducts research in the field of numerical relativity for gravitational wave astronomy. He develops methods to solve Einstein's equations using super computers. With simulations, he deals with questions about the production of gravitational waves by binary systems of black holes and neutron stars . He was involved in the analysis of the detector data of LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA, and the development of new experiments, such as LISA.[1]
Together with Lawrence Kidder and Mark Scheel, he developed the beginnings of the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC), which solves partial differential equations in the simulation of compact binary objects. This makes it possible to model expected gravitational waveforms, which can then be specifically searched in the detector data.[2][3]