Biographical sketch

Dr. Linford was born and raised in Gallup, NM, a small town on the eastern border of the Navajo Reservation. He received his B.S. in Physics (with Astrophysics Option and a minor in Math) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (a.k.a., New Mexico Tech) in 2003, graduating with High Honors. He then spent a little more than a year conducting research on lightning at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM. After Los Alamos, he entered the Physics graduate program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in December of 2012 (advisor: Gregory Taylor). His dissertation title was Parsec-Scale Properties of Gamma-ray Bright Blazars. Dr. Linford's first postdoctoral appointment was at UNM and the Long Wavelength Array (LWA).

Dr. Linford's research interests are mainly in radio astronomy. He is currently studying classical novae with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). He is also interested in radio transient sources, especially those with gamma-ray detections. He also studies active galactic nuclei (AGN) with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI).

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