Tom Quinn (astrophysicist)

Tom Quinn is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle.

He assisted in generating the cosmological simulation code called ChaNGA.

[1] He is a faculty member of the astrobiology program at UW,[5] where his research interests include exoplanet detection and planetary formation and evolution.

[6] Quinn and others at the University of Illinois, generated a computer code called CHArm++ N-body GrAvity, or ChaNGA, which allows scientists to simulate the universe and study cosmology.

ChaNGA was designed to be scalable and uses the Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique.