Richard Klein is an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and a Scientific Staff Member at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Klein acknowledged his bachelor’s degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1966 and his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1973.
Klein has pioneered methods of radiative transfer and adaptive mesh refinement applied to computational astrophysics beyond the last several decades. He played a central role in the go ahead of the radiation-driven implosion model for induced star formation and in developing the leading theory of stellar winds for “hot stars”. He has pursued a expansive range of problems ranging from star formation to tall energy physics, including the interactions of supernovae shocks like interstellar clouds, the formation of low and high mass stars, accretion onto neutron stars, and Compton-heated winds from addition disks. He customary the Berkeley Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Group afterward Christopher McKee to build the technique of adaptive mesh refinement for numerical simulations of astrophysical shapeless dynamics. In addition, he has applied these simulations to scaled laboratory astrophysics experiments. He was official by the American Physical Society (APS) in 2003 for his contributions to computational astrophysics and named a Fellow.
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