David Trebotich Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

David Trebotich is a computational scientist in the Applied Math Group at the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at LLNL. He is the project leader for the LLNL component of APDEC, the Applied Partial Differential Equations Center for Enabling Technology, which is developing algorithms and software to simulate a broad range of complex multicomponent physical systems in which partial differential equations play a central role. David also leads an effort in computational bio / microfluidics which has developed new algorithms to simulate the behavior of biological fluids in microscale systems. His current interest is algorithms to model complex fluids in multiscale systems using adaptive, embedded boundary / volume-of-fluid methods. David earned his Ph.D. in computational science from the mechanical engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. He also holds an M.S. in applied math and mechanical engineering from Tulane University. Prior to joining LLNL in 2001, David was a post-doctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center.