{"id":18,"date":"2015-12-08T20:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T03:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-05-10T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:00:41","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"About the author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2Profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2Profile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Lee Liming\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Lee Liming lives with his wife, Kristin Schultz, and three sons in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The son of teachers and a librarian, and a computer engineer by education, Lee has held professional positions as software developer, system administrator, IT support professional, research technology manager, project manager, technology analyst, and technical writer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I work at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory helping scientists speed up their discoveries by adding advanced computing technology to their work tools. This is exciting because I get to work with scientists who are searching for solutions to the &#8220;big problems&#8221; of our time: climate change, energy production and conservation, biodiversity and ecology, cancer, genetics, neuroscience, and cosmology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/img_3902.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Lee has traveled extensively in the United States, six of the seven continents, and the virtual worlds of Azeroth, Draenor, and Argus. His wife, Kristin, is a Lutheran pastor. He is an amateur artisanal baker and coffee roaster, a science enthusiast, and a fan of science fiction and fantasy. His sons proudly call him a nerd.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\t<h4><strong>Likes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Reading: <\/strong>Alastair Reynolds, TJ Klune, Patricia McKillip, Guy Gavriel Kay, Iain M. Banks, China Mieville, Patrick Rothfuss, Ursula K. LeGuin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Places: <\/strong>Chicago, New Orleans, Rome<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musicians:<\/strong> The Duhks, Green Day, Rob Thomas, Sarah Jarosz, Beck, Sting<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Links<\/strong><\/h4>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.leeandkristin.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lliming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.facebook.com\/lliming<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/uchicago.edu\/lliming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sites.google.com\/a\/uchicago.edu\/lliming\/<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Liming lives with his wife, Kristin Schultz, and three sons in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The son of teachers and a librarian, and a computer<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?page_id=18\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/centered.php","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"miteri-cp-520x400":false,"miteri-cp-450x450":false,"miteri-cp-700x700":false,"miteri-cp-800x500":false,"miteri-cp-1200x580":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lee","author_link":"https:\/\/www.leeandkristin.net\/rll\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Lee Liming lives with his wife, Kristin Schultz, and three sons in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 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