1961  Born in San Francisco, California. 

1985  B.A. in Chemistry from Reed College, Portland Oregon.   Thesis with Dr. Ron McClard on regulation of fructose 2,6-bisphosphatase and phosphofructokinase.

1990 Ph.D. from UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  Dissertation on photoionization of atomic and molecular clusters with Dr. Robert L. Whetten (now at Georgia Tech).  Started work as Technical Manager for Lion Industries Inc. in Vancouver, Washington. 

1995  Promoted to Sr. Vice President of Lion Industries Inc.; moved to Marietta, Georgia.

1996  Lion Industries Inc. acquired by Vinings Industries Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia.  Took new position as Director of Technology. (Vinings was acquired by Kemira Chemicals, Inc in 2002).

2001  Started new career as Research Assistant Professor of Physics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

2005  Appointed Senior Lecturer of Physics, with responsibility for introductory physics laboratories.

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Hiking

• Georgia
• Tennessee
• Oregon
• Washington
• Kauai, Hawaii
• Maui, Hawaii

Vehicles

• 1973 Citroen SM (at right)
• 1976 Jensen GT (well, its a project actually)
• 2001 Ford Ranger (my daily driver...)
  

International Travel

Australia

China

Taiwan

Italy

Mexico

Japan

Korea

Malaysia

Singapore

Thailand

Indonesia

Philippines

India

Books I'm currently reading:

• Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals - Robert M. Sapolsky
  
• An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
  
• The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury - Sam Weller
• The Language of Shape. The Role of Curvature in Condensed Matter: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology - S. Hyde et al.

Books I've recently finished:

• The Map that Changed the World, by Simon Winchester
  

Whom you might find in my CD players these days:

• Elizabethtown (soundtrack)
  
• Patti Griffin
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd
• John Prine
• Melissa Etheridge
• Eastmountainsouth
• Mindy Smith
• Lucinda Williams
• John Gorka