Employee

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.