Brief Biography
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I'm excited to be joining the faculty of the University of Utah's
Physics & Astronomy Department, starting August 2017.
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Came to NASA GSFC as a NASA Postdoctoral Program
fellow, living in Greenbelt and later (presently) in Baltimore.
Here I joined the NuSTAR mission and put in the work.
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PhD-gettin' time at the University of Virginia where I became an
X-ray astronomer, found my wife, and failed to find diffuse inverse
Compton emission in any galaxy clusters, to my great disappointment.
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Hiatus teaching English in China.
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Four great years at Ohio University, with summer internships in the
NOAO and SAO REU programs.
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Always thought my parents chose to live in this SW Ohio
town for its excellent schools; turns out that was just chance. Lucky for me.