My research is in elementary particle physics phenomenology, at the interface between theory and experiment. Specifically, I study Quantum Chromodynamics (the fundamental force that binds nuclei) to help answer the questions: What are the fundamental building blocks of nature, and what holds them together?
My work is supported in part by a DOE grant, and I have received continuous funding since 1992. I was awarded an TNRLC/SSC Fellowship in 1993, and am an active member of the CTEQ collaboration--a novel collaboration of theorists and experimentalists.
I was elected an APS Fellow in 2005 for "For significant contributions to understanding nucleon structure and heavy quark production in perturbative quantum chromodynamics." Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the then current membership of the Society are recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow in The American Physical Society.