User:Owlice1/Peter J. Teuben

Peter J. Teuben (born January 28, 1958) is a Dutch-American astrophysicist, best known for his work in galactic dynamics and hydrodynamics and in community software development. Using the NEMO extendible Stellar Dynamics Toolbox, which he co-authored with Joshua Barnes and Piet Hut, he studies hydrodynamics in barred galaxies for comparison to mm-wavelength molecular observations from BIMA and CARMA. He has a long-term involvement in development of community software for visualization and analysis of N-body and related simulations. He is involved in the international Virtual Observatory (VO) effort and chairs the Advisory Committee of the Astrophysics Source Code Library.

He received his PhD from the University of Groningen in 1986 (title: "Dynamics of Barred Galaxies", advisor: T.S. van Albada). Previously he held research assistantships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Astronomy Department at the University of Illinois in Urbana. Teuben is a Principal Research Scientist in the Astronomy Department at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. He holds membership in the American Astronomical Society and International Astronomical Union, and is a member of the Program Organizing Committee of the international Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems.

Badminton
Teuben is active in community and collegiate badminton and USA Badminton junior ranking events.