A 23-year military veteran having retired in 2021 as an instructor pilot/physicist from 2012 until 2021 served as both an instructor pilot and an assistant professor of physics at the US Air Force Academy.

EDUCATION:

• OCT 2009 – DEC 2012
  • Doctorate of Engineering Physics
  • EPR and ENDOR Studies of Point Defects in Lithium Tetraborate Crystals
• SEP 1994 – JUN 1996
  • Masters of Science in Medical Physics
  • Investigation of the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle (TCA) of the In Vivo Liver Using 13-C NMR Spectroscopy
• SEP 1989 – JUN 1994
  • Bachelors of Science in Physics
  • Capstone Research: Thin Film Superconductivity Characterization of Yttrium Barium Copper Oxides

RECENT WORK:

• MAY 2024 – PRESENT  Air Force Institute of Technology
  • Assistant Research Professor of Physics
• AUG 2022 – MAY 2024  Air Force Institute of Technology
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow / Assistant Research Professor of Physics
• NOV 2018 – NOV 2022  United States Air Force Academy
  • USAF Military Instructor Pilot Cirrus SR20 Chief Pilot of Standards and Evaluations

RECENT COURSE WORK: NENG = Nuclear Engineering (2022 to Present)

• NENG 650  Nuclear Instrumentation (Assistant Professor)
• NENG 625  Electromagnetic Pulse Effects (Professor)
• NENG 596  Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Modernizing Course)
• NENG 525  Electromagnetic Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Professor / Modernized Course)
• NENG 501  Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (Professor / Modernized Course)
• NENG 500  Nuclear Weapons Strategy (Assistant Professor)

RECENT RESEARCH:

• 2024 Materials Characterization (materials and soils) after nuclear activations – beginning research
• 2024 Characterizing Gamma Radiation in the ATHENA Energy Tuning Assembly  (ETA) at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) – HEART Conference 2024
  • Continuing Research for NIF Experiment in 2026
• 2023 Fielding Thermoluminescent Dosimeters / Investigation of Silicon Photomultipliers in the ATHENA ETA at NIF w/ AFIT Master’s Student
• 2014 Photoluminescence from Ag2+ ions in lithium tetraborate (Li2B4O7) Crystals – Journal of Luminescence