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SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY (2014-Present) Research Associate Professor
PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE (2014-Present) Associate Research Scientist, 
Funded projects:
·       Co-I, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner  (Ice stability, Heat Flow, Thermal Properties of Lunar Regolith and Crust, Laboratory Thermal Properties Investigation)
·       Co-I, InSight Participating Scientist (Selected 8/2018 Lander and Crustal-scale thermal models)
·       Co-I, OSIRIS-REx Participating Scientist (selected 11/2017, Thermal modelling, volatiles)
·       PI, DALI Lunar Heat Flow Radiometer (microwave instrument, being built at JPL $2.7M)
·       PI, Apollo Lunar Heat Flow Reanalysis (PI)
·       PI, Lunar geothermal heat flow observations with Arecibo and VLA telescopes 
and related Chang’E Microwave Radiometer studies 
·       Science PI, JPL-based lab investigation of low temperature (15-350K) thermal conductivity
·       Co-I, Mercury polar ice high resolution thermal and volatile stability modelling
·       Co-I, CLPS 2022 Lunar lander instrument, LISTER Heat flow probe (collaborator on 2 others) 
·       Co-I, GEODES SSERVI U. Mass. planetary geophysics virtual institute (Volatiles Team Lead)
·       Co-I, TLSE SSERVI  LPI-lead lunar exploration virtual institute
·       Co-I, Long-Term Ice Stability Due to Polar Wander (Co-I)
·       Lunar thermal modeling for 2023VIPER Lunar Resource Prospector mission
·       Co-I, Lunar Geophysical network study (Heat flow and seismometer instruments)
ADVACED SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION AND RESEARCH (2016-Present)
·       Contracted researcher on Lunar Borehole Seismometer Project (Science PI)
NASA/CALTECH- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (2013-2015, still current Affiliate) 
·       Staff Research Scientist, Geophysics & Planetary Geosciences
·       Collaborator on InSight HP3 heat flow investigation, Lander thermal modeling. 
·       Lunar, Mars, asteroid thermal and volatile mission analysis and modeling.
·       Beginning as Co-Investigator on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner Lunar Radiometer
·       Studies comparing Lunar and Mercurian ice deposits                 
NASA/CALTECH- JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (2012-2013) Advisor: Dr.Suzanne Smrekar 
·       Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, Geophysics & Planetary Geosciences 
·       Heat Flow modeling of the Moon and Mars
·       Diviner Lunar Radiometer Team member, primarily polar observations (Heat Flow and low temperature regolith thermal properties) 
·       Mercury ice stability modeling and measurements from MESSENGER (With D. Paige)
·       Long term ice stability on Mercury and orbital evolution 
·       Study of Chang'e-1 Microwave radiometer for potential subsurface lunar analysis  
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES (2006-2012) Advisor: Dr. David Paige 
·       Diviner Lunar Radiometer Team member, specializing in surface and near surface temperature modeling (Mentors: Dr. D. Paige-UCLA, Dr. A. Vasavada-JPL). 
·       Orbital evolution of the Lunar spin axis (Mentor: Dr. B. Bills- JPL). 
·       Reanalysis of the Apollo Lunar heat flow experiments (Mentor: Dr. S. Keihm- JPL) 
·       Laboratory measurements of thermal properties of icy Martian regolith analogs (Mentors: Dr. O. Aharonson, Caltech and Dr. N. Schorghofer, U. Hawaii). 
·       Spatial distribution of past lunar ice deposition (Mentors: Dr. Paige, Dr. B.Bills, R. Elphic). 
·       Heat Flow from the Lunar Interior as observed by Diviner (with Dr. Paige). 
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (2004-2011) Advisor: Dr. Oded Aharonson 
·       Laboratory measurements of thermal and diffusive properties of icy Martian regolith (with Dr. N. Schorghofer- U. Hawaii, Dr. M. Choukroun, Dr. T. Hudson-JPL). 
·       Cryobot design and construction (with Dr. M. Hecht- JPL). 
·       Phoenix Mars lander Thermal and Electrical Conductivity Probe testing (with Dr. M.Foote - JPL). 
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland (2003-2004) Advisor: Dr. Frank Lerhner  
·       Thermal and radiation design and assembly of the silicon vertex tracker LHCb at CERN. 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY (1999-2003) Advisors: Dr. Steven Squyres, Dr. James Bell, Dr. Peter Thomas  
·       Student assistant Mars Exploration Rover design and construction, MER Instrument               calibration studies, MER Landing site selection, Martian polar ice cap stratigraphy. 
FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LAB (Summer 2003), Advisor: Dr. Charles Newsom
·       Beam line testing of BTEV silicon tracker detectors. 
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, Zurich, Switzerland (Summer 2002), Advisor: Dr. Frank Lerhner 
·       LHCb detector and CERN thermal design studies.
FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LAB (Summer 2001), Advisors: Dr. Simon Kwan 
·       BTEV silicon detector thermal and electrical design. 
FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LAB (Summer 2000), Advisor: Greg Sellberg, Eric Ramberg
·       Silicon detector testing and prototyping for D0 and BTEV.

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