Chris Havlin

Chris Havlin is a Visiting Research Scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's School of Information Sciences, part of the Data Exploration Lab. His research focuses on developing open-source tools for volumetric data analysis and visualization in physical sciences, particularly using the yt platform. He holds a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Brown University, with postdoctoral work at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and freelance data science consulting experience.

Research Interests:

• Geophysical data visualization
• Computational geodynamics
• Open-source software development for scientific analysis
• Integration of yt with Dask and xarray frameworks

Professional Activities:

• Presenter at SciPy 2021 and AGU Fall Meeting 2020
• Contributor to yt_xarray package for Earth-Space science collaboration
• Advocate for interdisciplinary scientific workflows