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My research involves probing the physical manifestations of the Schrodinger Equation.

Using the synchrotron radiation techniques of photoemission, X-ray absorption, and X-ray emission spectroscopies, I can observe changes in energy levels and atomic structure in materials due to bond formation, bond breaking, radiation damage, and a host of other physical mechanisms. I apply these techniques to study many systems of relevance in biology, chemistry, and physics. The analysis of this spectral data requires state of the art theoretical modelling. The ab initio calculations are currently performed on a 4 node Mac OS X cluster.

Maybe, the best way to describe my work is as applied chemistry or applied physics. My current research projects are described below. Many of these projects are collaborations between myself and those that synthesize the samples.

Jeff at WIPP: I am 2200 feet under the ground in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. WIPP is an underground facility for the storage of transuranic waste.