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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and joined the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994. As a graduate student, I worked with Prof. R. A. Webb fabricating and characterizing single electron transistors. While working with Prof. H. D. Drew, I spearheaded several projects involving high temperature p-type cuprate superconductors: optically explored the metal-insulator transition via photodoping; characterized the frequency dependence of localization effects in underdoped material utilizing FTIR spectroscopy and microwave techniques; and designed and built a sensitive Faraday rotation and circular dichroism instrument operating in the THz spectral region to measure and characterize the nature of the strong electron correlation effects in optimally doped material.
I earned my PhD in 2003, subsequently played professionally as a jazz pianist for four years, returned to the University of Maryland in 2007 as a Research Associate, became an Assistant Research Scientist in 2011, and promoted to Associated Research Scientist in 2017. Since my return to physics, I have had the good fortune of pursuing a variety of exciting research programs while collaborating with top tier scientists. Through these collaborative efforts, I have performed: optical measurements on Weyl and 3D Dirac semimetals leveraging the temperature dependent Fermi level to characterize the band-structure and discovering a new plasmaron excitation, and observed chiral pumping effects at THz frequencies; gate-modulated magneto-optical measurements on topological insulators allowing characterization of the surface state transport properties as a function of Fermi level; magneto-optical measurements on n- and p-type cuprates affirming that current vertex corrections induced by electron interactions mediated by magnetic fluctuations in the Hall conductivity are the source of the ubiquitous anomalous Hall transport properties in both n- and p-type cuprates; developed experimental methods utilizing a new modulation technique to measure polarization-sensitive photocurrents in GaAs (110) quantum well stacks to test recent predictions of a Berry-phase contribution; collaborated in a quantum optics project which attempted to utilize N00N states in high resolution imaging applications; tested the feasibility of utilizing spin resonant techniques to remotely detect specific species of iron oxide formed on rebar embedded in a concrete matrix; and developed laboratory instrumentation including a fully automated optical and magneto-optical measurements system for unattended data acquisition and a laboratory scale helium recovery system that became a model adopted by IREAP at UMD. I am also an active collaborator in research and development of various graphene plasmonic detector schemes aimed at functioning in the THz regime.