Carl Fields
TAP Steering Committee Member
Office: Steward Observatory, N504
Dr. Carl Fields, received his Ph.D. from the Michigan State University, in 2021. Dr. Fields is a theoretical astrophysicist who is broadly interested in computational and nuclear astrophysics of massive stars, their explosions and the multi-messenger signals they produce.
Dr. Fields helped create and develop MESA-Web, an online-based interface to the stellar evolution code MESA. Over the years, MESA-Web has been utilized by many classrooms around the world and has evolved over 10,000 stellar models to over 6,000 unique users. MESA-Web is now hosted and maintained by Rich Townsend at UW-Madison and is a valuable tool for astronomy education.
A list of his scientific publications can be found here. For more information, please see his CV.