• 1978 Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
• 1975 M.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
• 1973 B.S. with Distinction, University of Washington, Seattle

• 2008-2010, Director of Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory.
• 1996-Present, Professor of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
• 1994-1995, Alexander von Humboldt, Senior Research Prize, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1989-1995,Staff Senior Scientist, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
• 1986-1987, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany and European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1984-1989, Divisional Fellow, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
• 1980-1984, Senior Guest Scientist, Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany.
• 1978-1979, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
• 1973-1978, Graduate Research Assistant, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.

• National Coordinator for ALICE-USA Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider, and Collaboration in ALICE Experiment 2006-present.
• Member of ALICE Physics Board, 2009-present
• Member of Advisory Committee to Brookhaven Director for a QCD Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory , 2004-2007
• Collaborator in STAR Experiment at BNL, 1991 - present
• Spokesman of the STAR Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, 1991-2002
• Collaborator in NA49 Experiment at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1991-1998
• Deputy Program Head of Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Program, LBL, 1990-1996
• RHIC Project Leader in Nuclear Science Division at LBL, 1990-1996
• Acting Project Manager of STAR Collaboration, 1991-1992
• CERN NA35 Project Leader in Nuclear Science Division at LBL, 1990-1991
• Spokesman of Bevalac CCD-Streamer Chamber Experiments at LBL, 1986-1990
• Collaborator in NA35 Experiments at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1985-1991
  

• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1996-present.
• Top 40 Distinguished Alumni, on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of Stony Brook University, 2002.
• Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, 1994 – 1995.
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Performance Achievement Award, 1993.
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Federal Republic of Germany, 1986 – 1987.
• Nuclear Science Divisional Fellowship, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley, 1984 –1989.

• Chair, Twenty-third International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2012), Washington D.C., August 2012.
• International Advisory Committee, Twenty-second International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2011), Annecy France, May 2011.
• Member of International Scientific Advisory Board for Romania (2011 – present)
• Member of Executive Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS, 2010-present
• Member of the Education Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS 2010-present
• International Advisory Committee, Hard Probes 2010, Fourth International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions, Eilat, Israel, October 2010.
• Member NSAC Committee of Visitors to Review DOE ONP 2009-2010.
• Organizing Committee of 25th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, February 2009.
• International Advisory Committee, Hard Probes 2008, Third International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions, Illa da Toxa (Galicia) Spain, June, 2008.
• Organizing Committee of 24th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, South Padre, TX, April 2008.
• Organizing Committee of 23rd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Big Sky, Montana, February 2007.
• International Advisory Committee, Nineteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2006), Shanghai China, November 2006.
• International Advisory Committee, Hard Probes 2006, Second International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, June 2006.
• Organizing Committee of 22nd Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, La Jolla CA, March 2006.
• Distinguished Alumni Advisory Board to the President of Stony Brook University, 2003 – 2006.
• International Advisory Committee, Eighteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2005), Budapest Hungary, August 2005.
• International Advisory Committee, International Workshop on QCD: Theory and Experiment (QCD@Work) 2005, Bari, Italy, June 2005.
• International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark Gluon Plasma, Calcutta, India, February 2005.
• Organizing Committee of 21st Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Breckenridge CO, February 2005.
• International Advisory Committee, 8th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Capetown, South Africa, September 2004.
• RHIC Panel Review, Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, June 30 - July 1, 2004.
• Organizing Committee of 20th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Trelawny Beach Jamaica, March 2004.
• International Advisory Committee, Seventeenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2004), Oakland CA, January 2004.
• International Advisory Committee, Topics in Heavy Ion Collisions, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 25 – 28, 2003.
• Program Committee, International Conference on Physics and Detectors, Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia IL, May 1 – 3, 2003.
• International Advisory Committee, 7th International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, Atlantic Beach NC, March 12 -17, 2003.
• Co-Organizer of 19th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Breckenridge, Colorado, February 2003.
• Sports Editor, Springer Publishing– New York (2000 – 2002).
• National Advisory Committee, Institute of Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle WA (1999-2002).
• Associate Editor of Nuclear Physics (1994 – 2002)
• Founding Spokesperson, STAR Experiment and Scientific Collaboration, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (1991 – 2002)
• Institute for Nuclear Theory, RHIC Workshop Panel, December 2002.
• International Advisory Committee, Sixteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2002), Nantes, France, July 2002.
• Co-Organizer of 18th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, January 2002.
• International Advisory Committee, Cracow Epiphang Conference on “Quarks and Gluons in Extreme Conditions,” Cracow, Poland, January 2002.
• International Board of Advisors, Pan American Study Institute on “New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions,” Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 2002.
• International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark Gluon Plasma, Jaipur, India, November 2001.
• Organizing Committee of 17th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Park City, Utah, March, 2001.
• International Advisory Committee, Fifteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2001), Stony Brook, New York, January 2001.
• Session Organizer, International Conference on High Energy Physics 2000, Osaka, Japan, July 27 – August 2, 2000.
• International Advisory Committee, Nucleus-Nucleus 2000, Strasbourg, France, 3 – 7 July 2000.
• Planning Committee, Quark Matter 2000, Long Island, New York, July 2000.
• International Advisory Committee, Catania Relativistic Ion Study 2000, Acicastello, Italy, May 2000
• Organizing Committee, 16th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Park City, Utah, March, 2000.
• International Advisory Committee, Fourteenth International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 1999), Turin, Italy, May 1999.
• Organizing Committee, 15th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Park City, Utah, January, 1999.
• International Advisory Committee, 2nd Catania Relativistic Ion Study, Acicastello, Italy, June 1998
• International Advisory Committee, Meson '98 Workshop, Jagellonian U., Cracow, Poland, May 30 - June 2, 1998
• Organizing Committee, 14th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Snowbird, Utah, February, 1998.

• Physics Department Graduate Admissions Committee (2011-2012)
• Physics Department Committee to Evaluate Prof. Helen Caines for Tenure Promotion (2011-2012)
• Committee on Undergraduate Physics Education -COUPE ( Chair 2010-present)
• Science Council (2005 - present; Chair 2008-present)
• Physics dept Director of Postdoctoral Affairs (2007-present)
• United Way Leader for Physics Dept. (2006)
• Physical Sciences Advisory Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee for the Physical Sciences (2000 – 2004)
• Committee on Yale College Education (2001 – 2003)
• Subcommittee on Science for Non-Scientists of the Committee on Yale College Education (2001 – 2003)
• Director of Graduate Studies in Physics Department (1998 - 1999)
• University Graduate School Degree Committee on Education (1999 – 2002)
• Physics Department Graduate Committee (1997 – 2004, 2005 - 2008)
• Physics Department Qualifying Examination Committee (2004)
• Physics Department Physics Club Co-Chair (Fall 2004, Fall 2009)
• Physics Department Long Range Plan Committee (2002-2003)
• Physics Department Web Committee (2004)
• Physics Department Senior Faculty Search Committee in Exp. Nuclear Physics (2008-2009)
• Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Exp. Nuclear Physics, Chair (2003-2004)
• Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Exp. Nuclear Structure (2004)
• Physics Department Senior Faculty Search Committee in Exp. High Energy Physics (2004-2005, 2005 - 2006)
• Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Theoretical Nuclear Physics (1998-1999))
• Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Theoretical Particle Physics (1997-1998)
• Physics Department Junior Faculty Search Committee in Theoretical Nuclear Physics (1998-1999)

• Ph.D. Thesis Research Advisor, UC Berkeley, Physics: L. Teitelbaum, (Ph.D. 2002)
• Ph.D. Thesis Research Advisor, UC Berkeley, Physics: S. Chase, 1987 – 1994
• Ph. D. Thesis Co-Advisor – Saehanseul Oh, Physics Department (since 2011)
• Ph. D. Thesis Co-advisor – Alice Ohlson, Physics Department (since 2011)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Tomas Aronsson, Physics Department (since 2008)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Rongrong Ma, Physics Department (since 2009)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Anders Knospe, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2011)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Christine Nattrass, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2009)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Oana Catu, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2008)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Betty Bezverkhny, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2007)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Sevil Salur, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2006)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Jonathan Gans, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2004)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Michael Miller, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2003)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Matthew Horsley, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2002)
• Ph. D. Thesis Advisor – Manuel Calderon, Physics Department (Ph.D. 2001)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Stephen Baumgart, Physics Department (2009)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Yanqun Dong, Physics Department (2009)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Guoji Lin, Physics Department (2009)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Samuel Flores, Physics Department (2008)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Fe Du, Physics Department (2008)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Elena Bruna, Univ. of Turin, Italy, Physics Department (2007)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Ke Han, Physics Department (2005, 2006)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Mark Heinz, University of Bern, Switzerland, Physics Department (2005)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Magdalena Djordjevic, Columbia University Physics Department (2005)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Haibin Zhang, Physics Department (2003)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Jonathan Lenaghen, Physics Department (2000)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Zhangbu Xu, Physics Department (1999)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee - Nigel George, Physics Department (1998)
• Ph. D. Examination Committee – Jamie Nagle, Physics Department (1997)
• Oral Examination Committee – Ke Li, Physics Department (2006)
• Oral Examination Committee – Betty Bezverknhy, Physics Department (2005)
• Oral Examination Committee - Quian Wan, Physics Department (2004)
• Oral Examination Committee – Sevil Salur, Physics Department (2004)
• Oral Examination Committee – Jonathan Gans, Physics Department (2003)
• Oral Examination Committee – Michael Miller, Physics Department (2002)
• Oral Examination Committee – Mathew Horsley, Physics Department (2001)
• Oral Examination Committee – Manuel Calderon, Physics Department (2000)
• Oral Examination Committee - Zhangbu Xu, Physics Department (1998)
• Marcel Figueredo (visiting graduate student from University of São Paulo, January 2010-January 2011)
• Ove Scaveneus (visiting graduate student from University of Copenhagen, August 1998 – August 1999)
• Christof Struck (visiting graduate student from University of Frankfurt, April 1998 – August 1999)
• Douglass Endrizzi (physics senior project 2009-2010)
• Matthew Napaaqtuk Smith (physics senior project 2009-2010)
• Xieyue Fan (physics senior project 2008-2009)
• William Leight (physics senior project 2004)

• 2012,Spring Semester, Physics 120, “Quantum Physics and Beyond,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 27 )
• 2011, Fall Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 86 )
• 2011, Spring Semester, Sabbatical
• 2010, Fall Semester, Sabbatical
• 2010, Spring Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 90)
• 2009, Fall Semester, Physics 120, “Quantum Physics and Beyond,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 23)
• 2009, Spring Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 43)
• 2008, Fall Semester, Physics 120, “Quantum Physics and Beyond,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 23)
• 2008, Spring Semester, Physics 110, “Developments in Modern Physics,”(enrollment: 116)
• 2007, Fall Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 54)
• 2007, Spring Semester, Physics 166 "General Physics Lab" Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 32)
• 2006, Fall Semester, Physics 110, “Developments in Modern Physics,” and Physics 515, “Topics in Modern Physics Research”, Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 33, 32)
• 2006, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Developments in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 67)
• 2005, Fall Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT and Physics 515, “Topics in Modern Physics Research,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 12, 11)
• 2005, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 56)
• 2004, Fall Semester, Physics 205a/206a, “Modern Physical Measurement,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 22)
• 2004, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 47)
• 2003, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 127)
• 2002, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 73)
• 2001, Fall Semester, Physics 505a, “Topics in Modern Physics Research” and Physics 671a, “Advanced Topics in Experimental Nuclear Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 17, 7)
• 2001, Spring Semester, Physics 110b, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 42)
• 2000, Fall Semester, Physics 505a, “Topics in Modern Physics Research,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 18)
• 2000, Spring Semester, Physics 672b, “Special Topics in Physics - Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 5)
• 1999, Fall Semester, Physics 505a, “Topics in Modern Physics Research,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 25)
• 1999, Spring Semester, Physics 472b, “Independent Projects in Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 12)
• 1998, Fall Semester, Physics 110a, “Themes in Modern Physics,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (enrollment: 62)
• 1975-1976, Graduate Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
• 1972-1973, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle

• Maria Sklodowska-Curie Joint Fund, 1992 – 1995, Co-Investigator with Prof. M. Gazdzicki
• US - Yugoslav Joint Board for Science & Technology, 1989 – 1992, Co-Investigator with Prof. G. Paic, R. Boskovic Inst., Zagreb, Croatia.

• ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter Technical Design Proposal and Report, 2006.
  ALICE Collaboration, CERN (approval by CERN, November 2006).
• A Comprehensive New Detector at RHIC-II, Expression of Interest, 2004. R2D Collaboration, nucl-ex/0503002 (decision deferred by BNL in 2005).
• An Experiment for Particle and Jet Production at Midrapidity, Update to the RHIC Letter of Intent, 1991,
  The STAR Collaboration, Reports LBL-31040 and UC-414, July 1991 (approval by BNL in 1991).
• An Experiment for Particle and Jet Production at Midrapidity, RHIC Letter of Intent, 1990.
  K. Kadija et al., Reports LBL-296 51 and UC-414, Sept. 1990. (decision deferred by BNL in 1990).
• NA49 IONS/TPC-HADRONS, Large Acceptance Hadron Detector for an Investigation of Pb- and p-induced Reactions at the CERN SPS. Proposal NA49, September 1991. NA49 Collaboration
  (approved by CERN in 1991).
• Study of Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at 60 and 200 GeV per Nucleon. Proposal NA35, CERN, CERN/SPSC/85-36, 1 September 1985.
  NA35 Collaboration: Athens, Bari, CERN, LBL, GSI-Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Krakow, Marburg, Texas A&M, Warsaw, Zagreb Collaboration (approved by CERN in 1985).
• Study of Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Reactions Induced by 16O Beams of 9 - 13 GeV per Nucleon at the CERN PS. Proposal PS190, CERN/PSCC 82-1/PSCC/ P53, 26 January 1982.
  GSI-Darmstadt, LBL, Heidelberg, Marburg, Warsaw Collaboration.
  (approved by CERN in 1982 and transferred to SPS).
• Study of Particle Production and Target Fragmentation in Central 20Ne on Pb Reactions at 12 GeV per Nucleon Energy of the CERN PS External Beam. Letter of Intent, 1981.
  GSI-Darmstadt - R. Bock, H.H. Gutbrod, J. Harris, H.G. Ritter, A. Sandoval, H. Stelzer, R. Stock, H. Stroebele, F. Weik, H. Wieman; U. Marburg, M.R. Maier, F. Puehlhofer, R.E. Renfordt; LBL, A.M. Poskanzer, H. Pugh, L.S. Schroeder, A. Warwick, K.L. Wolf, H. Grunder. (Initiation of the CERN SPS Heavy Ion Program)
• Various BEVALAC Nuclear Science Experiments, 1980 - 1988
  BEVALAC Streamer Chamber Collaboration (GSI, LBL, Marburg) (approved by BEVALAC PAC)

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