Group Leader

Education
State University of New York at Stony Brook: Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry, August, 1992. Research Advisor: Scott L. Anderson. Thesis title: "Studies of Ion-C60 Collisions with a Triple Sector Guided Ion Beam Instrument."

Loyola College, Baltimore, MD: B.S. in the disciplines of Chemistry (A.C.S. certified) and Biology, May 1984.

Professional Experience
Since 2003, Dr. Christian has been a Group Leader at Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. His research group is focused primarily on the development CMOS APD pixel arrays. Dr. Christian has written many award winning SBIR proposals and guided substantial efforts for R&D. As a Senior Scientist at RMD he developed various instrument systems, including detection platforms for micro-analysis systems and various spectroscopy systems. As a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Prof. Paul M. Champion he designed and constructed a Raman spectroscopy system and studied frequency and time resolved spectroscopy of heme proteins. Dr. Christian has reviewed, or contributed to reviewing, many manuscripts submitted for publication. Also as a Postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Wim J. van der Zande he constructed a phase-sensitive electron wavepacket experiment and studied electron wavepacket dynamics in neutral atomic beams. As a Research Assistant in the Department of Chemistry at State University of New York, Stony Brook he designed and constructed tandem mass spectrometer instrument and studied ion beam reaction dynamics and C60 collision dynamics. During the 1990 academic year, Dr. Christian served as a Teaching Assistant. In that capacity, he designed experiments for the instrumentation laboratory course for undergraduate chemistry majors and trained a class of undergraduate students in the electronics laboratory for chemistry.