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B Committee Member and Staff Biographies
B Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 24-27
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His primary research interest is the study of plasma physical and energetic particle phenomena in the planetary magnetospheres and in Earth's magnetosphere. He was a member of the staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory and leader of its Space Plasma Physics Group, and he was chief of the Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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He is also a member of the Children's Hospital Vascular Biology Program, Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology Division, Harvard-Dana Farber Cancer Center, and MIT Center for Bioengineering. Although trained in cell biology and medicine, he has integrated approaches from molecular biology, engineering, chemistry, microfabrication, nanotechnology, and computer science to define how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces.
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His research has centered on applications of fluid mechanics, both theoretical and experimental, to numerous areas of technical, scientific, economic, or societal importance, including hypersonic flows, rarefied gas dynamics, reentry physics, dust comets, desalination, physicochemical hydrodynamics, synthetic fuels, electrokinetic soil remediation, and slurry rheology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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He served previously as deputy assistant administrator for science in the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development (1994-1998) , associate director of space sciences at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1993-1994)
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