Bio sketch

Mark Galassi was born in Manhattan in 1965. He grew up in France (ages 1-6) and Italy (ages 6-18). He studied classics at the Liceo Classico Parini in Milan.

He returned to the United States in 1983 to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he got his BA in physics (December 1986).

In September 1987 he moved to Long Island for graduate school in the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University under Martin Rocek.

He finished his PhD in September 1992 with a thesis in General Relativity and Regge Calculus (See dissertation.)

After Stony Brook he moved to Santa Fe (New Mexico) in 1992, to work in Los Alamos National Laboratory, initially

in the Theoretical Astrophysics group, and then for almost all his career in the Space Science and Applications group.

Mark has happily worked on research in astrophysics, nuclear non-proliferation, radiography, space physics, computer science, ionospheric physics, …

In 1997 he took a partial sabbatical from Los Alamos for two years and worked for Cygnus (then merged with Red Hat and more recently with IBM) on the eCos embedded operating system.

In 2019 Mark co-founded the Institute for Computing in Research which trains students for research in all areas of scholarship.