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I'm a research scientist in the [Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE)](https://ccse.lbl.gov/index.html) within the [Computational Research Division](crd.lbl.gov) of the [Computing Sciences Area](https://cs.lbl.gov/) at the [Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory](lbl.gov). I primarily work on the [SEAHORÇE](https://seahorce-scidac.github.io/) project developing the [REMORA](https://remora-ocean.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) code. I also work on high-performance particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection, with an eye towards modeling pulsar magnetospheres.

I received my PhD in Physics in 2021 from the University of California, Berkeley, where I worked in both the Physics and Astronomy Departments. I was one of the primary developers of Sedona, a Monte Carlo radiation transport code. My primary research advisers were Eliot Quataert and Dan Kasen.

Previously, I was a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow and a UC Berkeley Physics Theory Fellow. I spent summer 2017 at Oak Ridge National Lab working with Bronson Messer on non-blocking communication in FLASH. I received my BS in Physics with a minor in Computer Science from Caltech.

The best way to contact me is by email: klion [at] lbl [dot] gov