Academic Appointments
- Research Scientist -- Department of Physics, UCSD 2023 - present
- Research Scientist -- Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, UCSD 2014 - 2023
- Lecturer -- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego 2016
- Visiting Professor -- Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China 2014 - 2016
- Senior Research Scientist -- California Institute of Technology 2011 - 2014
- Senior Research Associate -- California Institute of Technology 2002 - 2011
- Lecturer in Physics -- California Institute of Technology 2000-2001, 2003-2006, 2008
- Visiting Associate -- California Institute of Technology 1992, 1997-2002
- Chercheur Associe -- Observatoire de Paris Meudon 1994
- Visiting Scholar -- University of Chicago 1993
- Visitng Associate Professor -- University of Florida 1993
- Professor -- Montana State University 1993-1996
- Associate Professor -- Montana State University 1988-1993
- Assistant Professor -- Montana State University 1985-1988
- Research Associate -- University of Chicago 1984-1985
- Enrico Fermi Fellow -- University of Chicago 1982-1984
- Lecturer -- Stanford University 1982
- Research Associate -- Stanford University 1980-1982
- Research Physicist -- University of California Santa Barbara 1978-1980
Education
- Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park 1978
- M.S. University of Maryland College Park 1975
- B.S. California Institute of Technology Pasadena 1972
- Lick-Wilmerding High School San Francisco 1968
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- Ph.D. Dissertation: "Fundamental Properties of Equilibrium Stellar Models"
- Dieter R. Brill, Advisor
Honors
- Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review
Letters 2011
- Fellow of the American Physical Society 2002
- Charles & Nora L. Wiley Faculty Award for Meritorious Research 1991
- Arthur H. Compton Lecturership 1983
- Enrico Fermi Fellowship 1982
Selected Professional Service
- Executive Committee of the APS
Topical Group in Gravity 2007-2010
- Editorial Board of Physical Review D 2007-2010
- NASA Universe Working Group 2005