Dirk Englund

Dirk Englund is a Technical Advisor at Lightmatter. Dirk was previously an Intern at Sandia National Laboratories from January 2016 to December 2016. Dirk Englund obtained their PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from January 2013 to December 2019. Dirk's research as a PhD candidate was on developing a robust method for visualizing images that have been distorted by extreme gravitational fields, typically caused by black holes and neutron stars. Dirk Englund was also a Research Collaborator at Caltech from January 2012 to December 2013 where they were a member of the Simulating eXtreme Spacetime (SXS) collaboration. Dirk Englund has experience in Blast Effects and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) from their time as a Blast Effects Co-op Engineer at Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc. from January 2011 to December 2011.

Dirk Englund is a Doctor of Philosophy who specializes in physics. Dirk attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their PhD. Dirk Englund also has a Bachelor of Science in both physics and mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.