Keaton Burns

Bio

Keaton received his BA in Applied Mathematics, Physics, and Astrophysics from UC Berkeley in 2012, his MASt in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2013, and his PhD in Physics from MIT in 2018. He completed his postdoctoral work as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. He has been in the MIT math department since 2019 as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics (2019-2023), a Research Scientist (2023-2025), and now a Principal Research Scientist.

Keaton's research focuses on developing and applying high-order numerical methods for solving PDEs. He is the lead developer of the Dedalus Project, a flexible framework for solving PDEs with modern spectral methods. He uses these methods to study problems in astrophysical, geophysical, and biological fluid dynamics.