Present Appointment

Associate Professor of Physics California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Employment and Education

• Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2007-2013
• Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2004-2007
• Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2001-2004
• PhD, Physics, UC Davis 2001
• MS, Physics, UC Davis 1998
• BS, Astrophysics, UCLA 1994

Research interests

• Relativistic nuclear collisions with the ALICE Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
• Neutron-induced fission reactions with the NIFFTE collaboration
• Scientific computing and computational physics