Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Celestial Mechanics

• Planetary Science

Education

• Ph. D., University of Oxford, UK (1995)

Present Position

• 2002 — Present

Research Scientist

US Naval Observatory, Washington DC 20392

Previously Held Positions

• 2001 — 2002

 University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• 1997 — 2000

Harvard University, Department of Physics

Visiting Research Scientist

• 1996

Harvard University, the Core Program

Lecturer

• 1995

Tufts University, Department of Physics

Lecturer

Synergistic Activities

• 2009 — Present

Member of Commissions A3 , A4 and F2 of the International Astronomical Union 

• 2008 — 2009

Chair of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society 

• 2009

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, Symposium No 261 of the International Astronomical Union, April 2009 

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, Meeting No 40 of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy, May 2009 

• 2007 — 2008

Vice Chair of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy 

• 2008

Chair of the Scientific Program Committee

Meeting No 39 of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy, April 2008  

Awards

• 2008

Outstanding Referee Citation, Geophysical Research Letters, AGU

• 2006

Best Paper Award, Conference "New Trends in Astrodynamics", Princeton 2006

• 2001 — 2002

IMA Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Minnesota

• 1993 — 1995

Dulverton Graduate Scholarship, Oxford University, UK

• 1991 — 1993

Amelia Jackson Graduate Scholarship, Oxford University, UK

• 1990 — 1991

Visiting Graduate Scholarship, Oxford University, UK

Colloquia and Seminars given

Princeton 1994, Cornell 1994, Tufts 1994, Harvard 1998, Toronto 1998, Princeton 1999, Harvard 1999, Boston University 1999, Boston College 1999, Wellesley 2000, Wisconsin Madison 2000, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Centre 2000, Deutchen Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) 2001, Minnesota 2001, Harvard 2002, UCLA 2002, U of Maryland College Park 2002, US Naval Observatory 2002, Harvard - CfA 2003, US Naval Observatory 2003, Princeton - IAS 2003, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Centre 2004, University College Dublin 2005, Observatoire de Paris 2007, Observatoire Royal de Belgique 2007, DTM - Carnegie Institution of Washington 2012, U of Maryland College Park 2013, NASA — Goddard Space Flight Centre 2013, Harvard - CfA 2019 

Refereeing for Journals        summary

• Advances in Space Research

• Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Astronomische Nachrichten

• The Astronomical Journal

• The Astrophysical Journal

• Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

• Chaos

• Earth, Moon and Planets

• Foundations of Physics

• Geophysical Research Letters

• Icarus

• The International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

• The Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT)

• The Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets (JGR E)

• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)

• Nature

• Nature Astronomy

• Naturwissenschaften

• Planetary and Space Science

• Pure and Applied Geophysics

• Regular and Chaotic Dynamics

• Science

Editing

• Scientific Editor of the De Gruyter series of books on mathematical physics

• Co-edited a special issue of the "Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy" journal

Taught courses, as a lecturer fully responsible for the course

Tufts University

• Advanced Quantum Mechanics (graduate)

• Analytical Mechanics (undergraduate)

• Electricity and Magnetism (undergraduate)

• Introduction to Planetary Astronomy (undergraduate, non-science-major)

University of Massachusetts

• Mathematical Methods of Theoretical Physics (graduate)

Suffolk University

• Quantum Mechanics (undergraduate)

• Classical Mechanics (undergraduate)

• Modern Physics (undergraduate)

• Introduction to Physical Science (undergraduate)

• Introduction to Planetary Astronomy (undergraduate, non-science majors)

Taught courses, as a teaching assistant responsible for labs, grading and problem-solving sessions

Harvard University

• Advanced Quantum Mechanics (graduate)

• Classical Electrodynamics (graduate)

• Physics I (PreMed undergraduate)

• Physics of Waves (undergraduate)

• Chance, Necessity, and Order (undergraduate, non-science majors)