I was born in southeastern Pennsylvania in 1975. I lived there for 18 years, then I moved to Colorado where I got a B.S. in physics at Colorado State University. Then I moved to New Mexico in 1997 to start a Ph.D. program in High Energy Particle Physics at New Mexico State University. I am temporarily living on Long Island, NY, performing research for my degree at Brookhaven National Laboratory. As a particle physicist, I am interested in the fundamental structure of matter.
Gluons are the carrier of the strong force, and hold the quarks together.
Large particle accelerators, like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven, allow us to study properties of the quarks and gluons. By colliding atomic nuclei together at high energies, we can cause the quarks and gluons to interact with each other. When I am not engrossed with graduate studies, I am probably working out in the gym, hiking, biking, skiing, golfing, dirt bike riding, mountain climbing, or playing my guitar.