Faculty and Staff

Hello! My name is Andrew and I love learning. I have an M.S. in Instructional Science and an M.S. in Physics. For ten years I taught high school science classes and supported early career science teachers develop their teaching practice. More recently I've been teaching college physics and astronomy. I developed a love of astronomy through stargazing on camping and backpacking trips. To get a better look, I built a telescope in high school in a class taught by John Dobson, a famous astronomer. I also enjoy hiking, running, board games, traveling, cooking, and coffee. I've recently started to learn more about gardening so that I can grow my own vegetables. I try my best to foster an inclusive, supportive learning community in my classes where we all build knowledge together. My lessons involve active engagement from students as we work in teams to develop new concepts and models for physics and astronomy. If you want to learn in a community, I'd love to have you in my class!

Hi! I retired in 2024 after working at Chabot for 35 years, and stay involved giving planetarium shows and serving on the retiree board. I studied Math & Astrophysics at UC Davis and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and Astrophysics at UC Berkeley in grad school. I worked for IBM as an engineer and manager and in a software startup before joining the faculty at Chabot. I also taught at CSUEB & UC Berkeley, and worked at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific as an editor. I worked with NASA writing about results from the Hubble Space Telescope, reviewing proposals for space missions & developing labs using data from satellites observing the Sun and planets around other stars. In 2022, I was extremely fortunate to be one of the first community college faculty to work on NASA's SOFIA Airborne IR Observatory. I am an honored recipient of the Reed L. Buffington award for teaching, and love sharing Astronomy & Physics and how much they are actually a part of our lives.