Lutz Rastaetter
RITSS at Code 696/CCMC, NASA/GSFC

6/1997 Ph.D. at Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany (Prof. Schindler)

MHD simulations of magnetosphere accretion disk interaction, fluid instablilities at boundary, reconnection

9/1997-9/2000 NRC Associate at GSFC with Michael Hesse

MHD modeling of magnetotail current sheet thinning, reconnection, magnetic field topology and near-Earth current systems

since 11/2000 Raytheon ITSS at CCMC (Community Coordinated Modeling Center - M. Hesse)

running BATSRUS MHD and other models and developing model interaction and visualization software for CCMC