…with due apologies to Salinger, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is that I came to Lafayette in 2005.   I went to college and grad school at the University of California, Berkeley, and then spent my first few years of faculty life at Harvey Mudd College.

I love fluid mechanics, and have ever since I first mixed corn starch and water together in the kitchen sink.  At Cal, I completed my Ph.D. thesis on computational simulations of blood flow in severely stenotic arteries with Stan Berger. David Saloner at UCSF helped me understand how modeling like mine was relevant to the diagnosis and treatment decisions being made by radiologists and surgeons.  I still focus on the fluid dynamics of blood in diseased vessels, now with both computational and experimental methods, though my landscape has broadened to include aneurismal vessels, venous valve disorder, and the mechanics of artery walls.

I’m also always game to investigate an interesting question in fluid mechanics, especially if I can persuade some undergraduates to sleuth around and marvel with me.

Other topics I take seriously are music; baseball; skateboarding; and the reading and writing of fiction.