I have been a professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department since 1982. Prior to that I was a post doc at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, graduate student at Carnegie-Mellon University, and engineer in private industry.
My bachelor's degree is in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University. I switched fields after a period in private industry and received an MS in Physics and the Philosophy of Science at Northern Illinois University, and then received my Ph.D. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in Theoretical and Experimental Elementary Particle Physics.
Born: August 2, 1950 (Oak Park, IL)
Married: Janet Peterkin (45 years), 2 children (Terry and Kimberly)
Citizenship: U.S.