AJ Christensen is a senior visualization designer for the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), where he develops data visualization techniques and designs data-driven imagery for scientific analysis and public outreach using Hollywood visual effects tools. SVS visualizations feature datasets from Earth- and space-based instrumentation, scientific supercomputer models, and physical statistical distributions that have been analyzed and processed by computational scientists. AJ's specialties include working with 3D volumetric data, using the procedural cinematic software Houdini, and science topics in Heliophysics, Geophysics, and Astrophysics.
AJ previously worked for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ Advanced Visualization Lab where he made imagery for more than a dozen science documentary films, and for the London visual effects company Double Negative on the movie “Interstellar”, which won the 2015 visual effects Academy Award. He has a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Informal Science Learning.