Roseanne M. Cheng

Education

Roseanne M. Cheng is a theoretical and computational physicist with a research specialty in scientific computing that spans applications in extragalactic astrophysics to the dynamics of energetic materials. Prior to Space Science Institute, she served as staff scientist in the T-3: Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). She has had previous research experience as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, assistant research scientist at the Center for Astrophysical Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, and Nicholas C. Metropolis postdoctoral fellow at LANL. She received a B.Sc. in Physics from University of Louisville (2005) and a Ph.D. in Physics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2012). Roseanne's scientific interests are in the theoretical modeling of complex phenomena in astrophysical transient systems, such as tidal disruption events and gamma-ray bursts, characterized by extreme conditions in density, temperature, velocity, magnetization, and gravity. Her research specialty is in high performance computing multi-scale, multi-physics hydrodynamics.