Dr. Kalas studied Astronomy and Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and earned a Ph.D with astronomer David Jewitt(link is external) at the University of Hawaii. Before coming to UC Berkeley in 2000, he worked as a postdoctoral scientist with Steven Beckwith at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2009 received the ...
Klein has pioneered methods of radiative transfer and adaptive mesh refinement applied to computational astrophysics over the last several decades with particular application to star formation. He played a central role in the development of the radiation-driven implosion model for induced star formation and in developing the leading theory of stellar winds for hot stars. He founded the Berkeley Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics group with Chris McKee. He also leads a research group in developing scaled laboratory laser astrophysical experiments.
