Brief Bio -
I am currently a Professor in astronomy at Michigan
State and co-director of the Center for the Study of Cosmic Evolution.
Before coming here, I was an Asst. Professor and Director of
Graduate Studies at Yale. Earlier, I was a Hubble Fellow at UC Berkeley
and a postdoctoral fellow at Durham in the UK. I received my PhD at
Johns Hopkins University. My research is primarily in extragalactic
astronomy, with a long-standing focus on the formation and evolution
of galaxies. Much of my work in this area uses the properties of
globular cluster systems of galaxies learn about how galaxy formation
and evolution works and doesn't work. I have recently also been
working on black holes and neutron stars in extragalactic
globular clusters. The paper trail tells the story more completely.