Christopher Allen
Accelerator Physicist
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Allen is an accelerator physicist with 15+ years of experience applying control theory, electromagnetics, and optimization to the modeling, simulation, and operation of large-scale particle accelerators. Based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he develops and validates high-level physics applications (notably extending the XAL environment) to improve SNS and international facilities' performance through automation, data acquisition, and rigorous code verification. His background spans national labs and international collaborations (JAEA, KEK, LANL), where he has implemented space-charge and emittance-growth models, online simulators, and tomographic phase-space reconstruction techniques. With a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, he blends deep theoretical research with practical software engineering—often refactoring legacy tools into extensible simulation frameworks—and has led projects that bridge accelerator physics, controls theory, and large-scale computational modeling.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBSEE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BSEE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Syracuse
rudimentary japanese and spanish
Github Skills (2)
physics9
accelerator9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
openxal/openxal
Apr 2011 - Jun 2016
Open XAL Accelerator Physics Software Platform
Contributions:420 commits, 6 pushes, 4 comments in 5 years 3 months
physicsacceleratoraccelerator-physicsparticle-acceleratorphysics-simulation
EuropeanSpallationSource/openxal
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 comments in 1 day
physicsacceleratoraccelerator-physics
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