Education
- A.B. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
- Ph.D in Physics, The University of Chicago, 1996
Work experience
- 1996-1999: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University
- Fall 1999: Member, Institute for Advanced Study
- 1999-2002: Postdoctoral Research Associate, SLAC and Dept. of Physics, Stanford University
- 2002-2009: Assistant Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
- 2009-2017: Associate Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
- 2017-present: Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
- 2018: Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Studies, MIT
- 2018-2021: Chair, Department of Physics, Brandeis University
- 2023-2024: Visiting Associate, Environmental Science and Engineering Program, Caltech.
Teaching
- Quantum Mechanics (undergraduate and graduate), Quantum Field Theory (graduate), Classical Mechanics (intro level, advanced undergraduate, and graduate), Statistical Mechanics (graduate), General Relativity (undergraduate), Fluid Mechanics (undergraduate and graduate), Cosmology (intro level undergraduate)
Funding
- PI: NASA Physical Oceanography grant 80NSSC23K0345, “Higher-order statistics of geostrophic turbulence and internal waves”.
- PI: DOE grant DE-SC0009986, “Research in Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Cosmology”.
- Co-PI: (2021-24) DOE QuantISED grant DE-SC0020360, “Complex Quantum Systems and the Quantum Universe”.
Awards
Service and leadership
- Member, Brandeis University Faculty Senate, representing the Division of Science, elected 2024.
- Member at large, APS Topical Group on the Physics of Climate, 2020-2022.
- Seminar committee chair, APS-GPC Climate Physics seminar, 2024-2025.
- Co-organizer, Summer 2023 Aspen Center for Physics workshop on “Geometric and Field Theoretic Methods for Astro-, Geo-, and Bio-physical Fluids”.
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