Evan Schneider is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Dietrich School. Schneider specializes in computational astrophysics focusing on galaxy evolution and numerical methodology. Before working for Pitt, Schneider was a NASA Hubble Fellow and Lyman Spitzer Fellow at Princeton University for three years.
In 2017, Schneider earned her PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she also developed Cholla. Cholla (Computational Hydrodynamics on II Architectures) is a GPU-based hydrodynamics code for astrophysical hydrodynamics simulations. She has also focused much of her research on cloud wind and galactic wind simulations, studying the gases produced by these winds, the outflow of gas from starburst galaxies, and how galaxies grow and expand.
Schneider won the Nicolas Metropolis Computational Physics Dissertation Award in 2019 from the American Physics Society. Most recently, in 2022, she was awarded the Packard fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.