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Kai Kadau is a German American physicist specializing on high-performance computational modeling.

Career
Kadau got his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. P. Entel from the University of Duisburg in Germany for a thesis on Atomistic Study of Structural Phase Transitions.

Contributions
He worked with Berni Alder, the founder of molecular dynamics and an early pioneer of computational physics including Monte Carlo methods, on large scale atomistic modeling of turbulence and nano-hydrodynamics.

Other work incudes the microscopic origin of phase transformations of metals under the influence of shock-waves , work together with astrophysicist Charles J. Horowitz relating to the enormous strength and the resulting ability of neutron stars to emit measurable gravitational waves  , as well as modeling and understanding mitigation strategies of a potential H5N1 bird flu epidemics.

Kadau contributed to field of probabilistic fracture mechanics by introducing high-performance computing techniques and algorithms allowing for a direct-simulation Monte-Carlo method in the area of probabilistic fracture mechanics