Quick Facts
Biography
Mark Galassi grew up in France and Italy and currently lives in New Mexico.
Current Work
He works in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Research Scientist. There he has worked on the HETE-2 satellite, ISIS/Genie, the Raptor telescope, the Swift satellite, and the Muon tomography project.
He has been involved in the GNU project since 1984 and the GNU Scientific Library. He is also currently the Vice-President and a Board Chairperson of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Education
He studied classics at the Liceo Classico Parini.
He attended Reed College in Portland Oregon where he got his BA in physics and completed his theses in 1986. He then moved to Long Island to study at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook. He earned his BA in Physics and finished his PhD in September 1992.
He also worked for Cygnus Solutions and Red Hat writing software and documentation.