Figured I would write a short biography of myself as I don't expect anyone else will.
I am Canadian; born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba where it is cold in the winter but dry with bright blue skies. Since then I have lived in Vancouver, Oxford, Toronto, Hamburg, and now Boston. I enjoy travelling and have benefitted greatly from the opportunities my career has afforded. I enjoy playing most sports or games but don't watch or follow any sport. I like the outdoors, particularly skiing and canoeing though lately I seem to spend any free time renovating my house.
Professionally I am an experimental nuclear physicist. The following is just an outline of my career. More details on the experiments and the work I have done are available under the links on the left.
- B.Sc. (Honours Physics), University of Manitoba, 1974.
- M.Sc. (Nuclear Physics), University of Manitoba, 1978.
- The p+24Mg Interaction in the Energy Range 20-50 MeV.
- Ph.D. (Nuclear Physics), TRIUMF/University of Manitoba, 1983.
- Elastic Scattering of Polarised Protons from 3He at Intermediate Energies.
- 1983-1986 Research Associate, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, U.K.
- R&D for the central tracking detector for the ZEUS experiment.
- TASSO Experiment on PETRA at DESY in Hamburg, Germany.
- 1986-1991 Senior Research Associate, York University, Toronto, Canada
- Project manager for the design and production of the forward and rear calorimeters for the ZEUS Experiment.
- 1991-1998 Physicist, DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
- ZEUS Experiment, Hamburg, Germany
- Coordinator for the Hadron-Electron Separator (HES) Detector.
- Coordinator for the super-conducting and regular conducting magnets.
- 1998-present Principal Research Scientist, MIT, Cambridge, USA
- BLAST Experiment
- Coordinator for BLAST Experiment
- Designed, built, and maintained the wire chambers for the BLAST Experiment.
- Work for future projects:
- Tracking upgrade for STAR detector using GEM detectors
- OLYMPUS proposal to measure the 2 photon contribution
- Towards a future electron-ion collider
- PrimEx, HIGS, J-PARC