Education & Employment


MIT (Cambridge, MA)	BS Physics, 6/1991
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)	PhD Astrophysical Sciences, 10/1995
Carnegie Observatories (Pasadena, CA)	Carnegie Fellow, 10/1995-11/1997
Caltech (Pasadena, CA)	Hubble Fellow, 12/1997-11/2000
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)	Associate Research Scientist, 12/2000-9/2001
STSci (Baltimore, MD)	Assistant Astronomer, 10/2001-10/2002
University of California (Davis, CA)	Assistant Professor of Physics, 2002-2004
	Associate Professor of Physics, 2004-2009
	Professor of Physics, 2009-present
	Vice Chair of Admin and UG Affairs, 2006-2011, 2015-2019