Dr Jeremy L Thompson¶
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I am a Research Software Engineer at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, where I develop the 4C scientific simulation software. My research interests include preconditioning for high order finite element-like operators and sustainable open source scientific software development.
After graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy, I served as an advanced weapon systems analyst, testing the Air Launched Cruise Missile on the B-52. I was named the Air Combat Command Junior Military Scientist of the Year for my work helping restore U.S. Strategic Command’s confidence in the U.S. Air Force’s annual accuracy and reliability report for aircraft based nuclear weapons.
After this assignment, I joined the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where I taught math courses for engineering and computer science students. I was an Instructor (2012 to 2014) and Assistant Professor (2014 to 2016) while on the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. I was awarded Outstanding New Instructor and Outstanding Academy Educator while at the Air Force Academy.
After I left the Air Force, I went to University of Colorado Boulder for my PhD. I was part of the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) co-design center from 2017 to 2021. In this center, I developed the libCEED and LFAToolkit.jl open source scientific software libraries. I completed my PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021.
I was part of the PSAAP Multi-disciplinary Simulation Center for Micromorphic Multiphysics Porous and Particulate Materials Simulations Within Exascale Computing Workflows from 2021 to 2025. In this center, I developed the Ratel library and added Material Point Method capabilities to libCEED. I was a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at University of Colorado, Boulder from 2025 to 2026.