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Education and Training

BS: Physics (summa cum laude), University of Pennsylvania, 1981
PhD: Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1986
Postdoctoral: Princeton University, 1986; NATO Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, 1986-88; Miller Fellow, UC, Berkeley Astronomy, 1988-90

Experience in Cosmology and Data Science

* Developed first multi-fluid, 3-D simulation code for cosmological structure formation (P3MSPH), 1988
* First billion and ten-billion particle N-body simulations of cosmic structure (Hubble Volume, Millennium), 1999-2005
* Co-Leader, Simulation Work Group, Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, 2007–2015
* Director of Academic Community Engagement, U-M Advanced Research Computing, UM Office of Research, 2012–2015
* Steering Committee, NSF OCI Science Gateway Institute, UCSD, 2012–14
* Faculty Innovator Atlas (ART 2.0), U-M Center for Academic Innovation, 2015–
* Faculty Innovator, Problem Roulette, U-M Library and Center for Academic Innovation, 2012–

Accomplishments and Awards

* Fellow, American Physical Society, For groundbreaking work in simulations of large-scale structure with particular emphasis on the theory of galaxy clusters, 2012
* Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship, University of Michigan , 2009–
* University of Michigan Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, 2019 (Problem Roulette)
* 250+ publications, 20000+ citations, h-index = 66 (NASA ADS)
* Scientific Organizing Committee member for 30+ international conferences and workshops, 1993–
* Architect of Academic Reporting Tools, College of Literature, Science and the Arts (operating since 2006)
* Initiated Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop Series (ten instances since 1991)
* University of Michigan Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, 2012 (Better than Expected)

Recent Synergistic Activities

* ORCID Ambassador for University of Michigan, 2013–17
* Advisory Council, Center for Academic Innovation, 2016–18
* Steering Committee, Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE), 2013–15
* Created new course, Cyberscience: Computational Science and the Rise of the Fourth Paradigm, 2011-17
* Co-I, $2.4M NSF MRI, CONFLUX: Development of a Novel Platform for Data-driven Computational Physics, 2015–19
* Collaborator, $2M NSF Education, The M-STEM Academies at the University of Michigan: An Integrated Approach to Increase the Number and Diversity of Undergraduates in STEM Disciplines, 2012-17
* Chair, Provost’s Search Committee for the University of Michigan Librarian/Dean of Libraries, 2012-13

Collaborations

Dark Energy Survey: Builder, former Simulation Working Group co-Leader  

An international collaboration using the Blanco Telescope in Chile to survey 5000 sq. deg of sky, DES is the first project to enable application of four primary tests of dark energy (clusters of galaxies, gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering, and Type Ia supernovae) to the same data.  

XMM-XXL Survey: Simulation Coordinator

The roughly 100 members of XXL are identifying and characterizing galaxy clusters and other X-ray sources of X-ray across 50 sq deg using an allocation of 3 Msec on the XMM-Newton satellite observatory.  Dark energy and baryon evolution in massive structures are principal science drivers.

Funding for my research is provided by US taxpayers through peer reviewed proposals to NASA, the US Department of Energy Office of Science, and the National Science Foundation. THANK YOU!