Clockwise from the upper left - Me, Gareth, Dad (John), Dinah (my sister-in-law), Kelly, Nana, Mum (Merlyn), Kate.
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I spent the first nine years of my life in the village of Outram in the south of New Zealand. Gareth (my younger brother) and Kelly (my younger sister) were also born there. My family lived briefly in the city of Christchurch before moving to the village of Sefton where my parents (John and Merlyn) still live. I graduated from Rangiora High School in 1995 and earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Canterbury in 1998. Following a summer position at the Australian National Univeristy and six months of labor in a local saw mill, I left New Zealand to work with Professor Bobby Hunt at the University of Arizona.
At Arizona I worked on modeling the effects of multipath propagation in Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS). I was also fortunate to spend a summer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight center working with Dr. Edward Kim on the statistical modeling of earth-observing correlation radiometer signals. Following the conferment of a Master of Science degree from the Univeristy of Arizona, I moved to Boston to study for a Ph.D. at Boston University. In Boston I worked largely in modeling and data processing for novel fluorescence microscopy techniques. I worked in a large interdisciplinary group and was advised by Drs. W. Clem Karl, Anna K. Swan, M. Selim Ünlü, and Bennett B. Goldberg. I was also active in the Boston field hockey club where I was part of a nationally successful team. Hockey was also how I met Kate.
During the spring of 2005 I lived and worked in Heidelberg, Germany, under the direction of Dr. Hans Engelhardt and as part of Dr. Stefan Hell's larger research group. Following the conferment of my Ph.D. in 2006, I moved to Champaign, Illinois, to take up my current postdoctoral position in the group of Dr. P. Scott Carney at the University of Illinois.
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