John Ziebarth

John Ziebarth, Krell InstituteDr. John Ziebarth oversees operations, programs and business development at Krell. In addition, he manages the Krell-operated Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA SSGF) program.

Since beginning his professional career in 1974, Dr. Ziebarth’s work has included computational fluids research at Argonne National Laboratory, Rockwell International Corporation and a research institute at Colorado State University. Between 1988 and 1995, he taught computer science and developed computational science programs at the University of Alabama in Huntsville with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the Alabama Supercomputer Center. Since 1995, he has been primarily involved in management of high-performance computing research programs and organizations at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the NASA Ames Research Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Dr. Ziebarth earned a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering with an emphasis in computational fluid dynamics from Mississippi State University, an M.A. in mathematics from Eastern Illinois University, and a B.S in physics and mathematics from Eastern Illinois University.