Gabrielle D. Allen is a British and American computational astrophysicist known for her work in astrophysical simulations and multi-messenger astronomy,[1] and as one of the original developers of the Cactus Framework for parallel scientific computation.
[5][6] She became a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics before moving in 2003 to a position as an assistant professor at Louisiana State University.
At the University of Illinois, she became a professor of astronomy and a senior research scientist in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she was co-leader of the Gravity Group.
[3][4] Allen was one of the 2001 winners of the Gordon Bell Prize for supercomputing, in the special category, "for supporting efficient execution in the heterogeneous distributed computing environments with Cactus and Globus".
[2] She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2017, after a nomination from the APS Division of Computational Physics, "for international leadership in development of widely used simulation frameworks for numerical relativity, relativistic astrophysics, and other areas, laying a foundation for many groups to address complex problems in multi-messenger astronomy".