I create objects that challenge reality and stories that insist on being remembered.
I create objects that challenge reality and stories that insist on being remembered.
Embedded Files
By day, I’m a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, working at the cutting edge of research, fabrication, and design. By night, I’m a magician, machinist, and storyteller—turning brass, cards, light, and memory into experiences that invite wonder.
My work lives where rigor meets emotion.
Where equations share space with sleight of hand.
Where precision machining becomes poetry.
This site is a home for my long-form magic show What Remains, my darkly comic children’s book The Feisty Hens and One-Eyed Champion, and the custom-built magic apparatus that makes impossible moments feel earned. Each project asks the same question from a different angle:
What do we keep—when everything else vanishes?
If you’re here because you love craft, storytelling, engineering, magic, or the beautiful mess where they overlap—you’re in the right place.
Work experience
Work experience
5/2017 - present
Boston University
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics
9/2013 - 5/2017
Boston University
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Materials Science and Engineering
8/2008 - 9/2013
University of Colorado at Boulder
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Education
Education
Cornell University
Ph.D. Physics
Florida International University
B.S. Physics
If something here stayed with you, I’d love to hear it.
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse