Piet Hut
Piet Hut is currently Professor of Astrophysics and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ, where he has been on the faculty since 1985. He is also Head of the Program for Interdisciplinary Studies, a new program at IAS that he founded in 2002 (see http://www.ids.ias.edu/ for the program and http://www.ids.ias.edu/~piet for his web site).
He is a native of the Netherlands, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam in 1981, before immigrating to the United States. His research in Astrophysics has led to the development of novel algorithms, some of which are now used for simulations in widely different fields, from collisions between galaxies to the folding of proteins.
He has also made contributions to our understanding of mass extinctions, working with geologists and paleontologists. He has been a founding member for a number of different interdisciplinary initiatives, including the B612 foundation, the GRAPE project, and MODEST and MUSE.
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