Education

Ph.D. in Physics, specializing in Experimental High Energy Particle Physics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
Date of Completion: June 1990

B.Ap.Sc. with honours in Engineering Science (Physics Option) (1984)
University of Toronto, ON, Canada

Awards

Trustees' Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (1999, 1998)

Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Prize,
awarded in recognition of excellence in teaching of physics.
Indiana University, Bloomington (1997, 1994)

Cottrell Scholar Award,
grant to pursue excellence in research and teaching.
Research Foundation, U.S.A. (1996)

MacArthur Fellowship at the Enrico Fermi Institute,
University of Chicago, declined awar (1989)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
(NSERC) 1967 Science and Engineering Scholarship
Four year award towards graduate studies, preferably abroad (1984-1988)

Research/Academic Experience

  07/07 - Present
Chair, Department of Physics (Indiana University, Bloomington)

08/06 - 09/07
D0 Physics Coordinator (on leave from Indiana University)
Fermi National Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, Illinois.
D0 is an international particle physics collaboration of ~600 physicists from 89 institutes and 18 countries.

05/03 - Present
Professor (Indiana University, Bloomington)
b-quark id, B physics at D0, preparing for physics at ATLAS, electron-positron linear colliders

05/99 - 05/03
Associate Professor (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Finishing research on OPAL experiment, preparing for physics at D0 detector, electron-positron linear colliders

07/97 - 07/98
OPAL Physics Coordinator (on leave from Indiana University)
European Laboratory of Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
OPAL is an international particle physics collaboration of ~320 physicists from 32 institutes and 9 countries.

07/93 - 05/99
Assistant Professor (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Research on OPAL experiment (b-quark physics at LEP, new particle searches at LEP2), electron-positron linear colliders, joined D0 Collaboration

07/92 - 06/93
DESY Research Scientist (Inst. f. Experimentalphysik, University of Hamburg)
Resident at CERN, working on OPAL experiment

07/90 - 06/92
CERN Scientific Associate (European Laboratory of Particle Physics, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
Working on OPAL experiment, b-quark physics

09/84 - 05/90
Graduate Student Research Assistant (Stanford University, CA, U.S.A)
Working on Mark II experiment at the SLC, searching for new particles from Z decay

Summer 1984, 1983
Undergraduate Student Research Assistant (University of Toronto, ON, Canada)

Teaching Experience

1993 - Present
Assistant Professor (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Three semesters introductory physics for life science majors(P201/202), one semester introductory physics for science/physics majors (P222), one semester advanced undergraduate Mechanics (P442), one semester graduate-level particle physics (P535), one semester developing and teaching a graduate student course enhancing Associate Instructor training.

Supervision of foreign-exchange graduate student (1.5 years)

Supervision of three other graduate students.

Supervision of number of undergraduate and high school students in small research projects during the academic year and summer sessions.

Fall 1987
Teaching Assistant and Grader (Stanford University)
Graduate-level course on Particle Physics Phenomenology.
1984-1986
Teaching Assistant and Laboratory Demonstrator (Stanford University)
Taught sectionals and ran laboratory sessions for lower division physics courses in Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism and Optics, and Modern Physics

Organizations

1984 - present: Member of the American Physical Society

1982 - present: Member of the Canadian Association of Physicists.

1984 - present: Member of the Union of Concerned Scientists

1993 - present: Member of Association of American Physics Teachers

1995 - present: Member of Sigma Xi Society (scholarship in Physics)