Dr. Veitzer received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1999 in the field of Geophysics. His dissertation research focused on the development of theories of river network branching structure using concepts from complex systems analysis and probability theory. His research interests include techniques of parallel computation, ion-matter interactions, formal language theory, complex systems, and theoretical biology.

Dr. Veitzer is an expert in a number of areas of mathematics, physics, and computer programming. He has extensive experience in the fields of probability and statistics, physics, geophysics and hydrology, and has developed extensive statistical models of physical phenomena using non-standard analysis techniques. He has specific knowledge of many computing languages and packages, such as C, Fortran, IDL, Java, Python, shell scripting and Autotools. Dr. Veitzer is currently the technical lead of the FastDL project, implementing different methods of parallelization into the IDL programming language.