EDUCATION

Ph. D. from the Queen's University of Belfast, U. K. with dissertation on impact ionization of atoms and molecules. Post-Doctoral work at Belfast and at the Cornell University's Arecibo National Astronomy and Ionospheric Center. M. Sc. and prior degrees from Patna University in India.

PRESENT PRINCIPAL AFFILIATIONS:

CREATIVE RESEARCH ENTERPRISES: Sole Proprietor, Since March 1992.

PRESENT COURTESY AFFILIATIONS:

    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY :  Adjunct Professor of Physics , From 1999 to present

    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Adjunct Professor of Physics & Astronomy, From 1981 to 1994.

     SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION: Consultant, January 1994 - 1995

     NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER: Ames Associate,  1991 - 1995.

PAST UNIVERSITY & INDUSTRY POSITIONS (Past 19 yr. only, for brevity)

LOCKHEED MISSILE & SPACE COMPANY, Palo Alto Research Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94304,
    Staff Scientist (May 1990 - March 1992)
GENCORP AEROJET ELECTROSYSTEMS, Environmental & Tactical Division, Azusa, CA 91702,
    Senior Specialist Technical Staff (July 1986 - Jan 1990)
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, CALTECH, Earth & Space Science Division, Pasadena, CA 91104,
    Member of Technical Staff, (Rank-E7), Sept. 1984 -  July 1986.
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, CALTECH, Earth & Space Science Division, Pasadena, CA 91104,
    Member of Technical Staff, (Rank-E6), Feb. 1977 - Sept.. 1984.
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL & NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION,
    Senior Resident Research Associate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Feb. 1975 - Feb. 1977
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Department of Engineering Sciences, Gainesville, Florida,
   Associate Engineer (Sept. 1974 - Jan. 1975)
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Gainesville, Florida,
   Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, (Sept. 1968 - Aug. 1974)

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTERESTS/EXPERTISE:

Expertise in the spectroscopic, collisional, chemical, transport and radiative processes in the Earth's atmosphere relevant to stratospheric ozone, aurora, airglow and the ionosphere. Synergistic expertise in the chemistry and the dynamical processes in (interstellar) molecular clouds and star forming regions.

These expertise are used in major research programs such as:

Understanding the origin and evolution of minor and trace species in the Earth and planetary atmospheres.

Solar-terrestrial effects on the atmosphere and the ionosphere, including effects of solar variability on the climate.

Molecular diagnostics of interstellar clouds, shocks and winds from star formation, and circumstellar shells.

Prediction and detection of  the effects of normal peaceful and abnormal and violent human activities (e.g., effects on the UV-shield provided by ozone, climate change, nuclear winter)

Phenomenological and modeling studies of the physical processes and the atmospheric chemistry relevant to the determinations of optical signatures of strategic and tactical targets.

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH AND OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Research Publications: Author or Co-author in ninety (107) research papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings..

Reference Text: By invitation from Von Nostrand & Reinhold, co-edited a reference level text entitled "Ozone in the Free Atmosphere".

Text Books: Co-author in two textbooks on laboratory physics, one for university and the other for high school students in India.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

    American Astronomical

    Society International Astronomical Union