I graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degree from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in June of 1996. As an undergraduate I worked at EPPDyL, developing a multi-wavelength video pyrometry system for making temperature measurements of a lithium-fed MPD thruster cathode. I returned as a graduate student in the fall of 1996, working jointly under Professor Richard B. Miles and Professor Edgar Choueiri.  In the spring of 1998, I passed the general exam earning a Master of Arts degree and full doctoral candidacy.  I am currently finishing my Ph.D. research, which over the course of the last two years has involved the numerical simulation of microwave sustained plasmas and measuring the performance of a microwave electrothermal thruster which I build. To read a brief description of my project and to see a picture of the thruster, go to my project webpage by clicking   here. At this website, there are links to some of the papers I've written related to my research.