Dr. Rene Gassmoeller
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Research Devision 4: Dynamics of the Ocean Floor
Research Unit: Magmatic and Hydrothermal Systems
Research Unit: Computational Geodynamics
Office:
Room: 8E/217
Phone: +49 431 600-18 09
Fax: +49 431 600-13 22 56
E-Mail: rgassmoeller(at)geomar.de
Adresse:
Wischhofstraße 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Education and career
- since May 2024: Staff Scientist at GEOMAR and member of the Computational Geodynamics Group
- 2022 – 2024 Scientist at University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
- 2020 – 2022 Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
- 2018 – 2020 Assistant Project Scientist at University of California, Davis, USA
- 2017 – 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
- 2015 – 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
- 2015 – 2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate at GFZ Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam
- 2011 – 2015 Ph.D. in Geophysics, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences / University of Potsdam, Germany, on “The interaction of subducted slabs and plume generation zones in geodynamic models“ (Advisors: Bernhard Steinberger and Michael Weber)
- 2006 – 2011 Diplom (MSc) Geophysics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
Link to my personal website
Awards
- 2025 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
- 2019 Better Scientific Software Fellow (BSSw) of the US Department of Energy - Exascale Computing Project
Scientific Interest
- Computational models of the Earth’s interior
- The life cycle of oceanic plates
- Numerical methods and benchmarking of geodynamics modelling software
- High-performance computing in geodynamics
- Software development and leadership in scientific software projects
- Interaction of mantle plumes and mid-ocean ridges
- Integrating models from geodynamics, seismology and mineral physics