Stephen E. Maxwell

Stephen Maxwell received the A.B. degree in physics from the Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2000, where he worked on spectroscopic measurements in support of tests of fundamental symmetries, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship while in the Physics Department, Harvard University, where he studied the behavior of atoms and molecules at temperatures near absolute zero. From 2007 to 2010, he was a National Research Council Graduate Research Associate with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, where he continued his research on cold atoms through both experiments and theoretical calculations. In 2010, he joined the Sensor Science Division, NIST. His current research interests include radiometric calibration, environmental remote sensing, and greenhouse gas detection.