I am an Associate Professor of Astronomy in the Physics & Astronomy Department of the University of Western Ontario and the Department's Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. I received my BSc in Astronomy from Western in 1988 and my MSc (1991) and PhD (1995) degrees from the University of Toronto. I was a Post-Doc at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, before returning to Western as a Post-Doc in 1997. I joined Western's faculty in 1999.
My main research interests are massive stars in the LMC/SMC , non-LTE radiative transfer, and circumstellar disks around hot stars. All of my research projects involve large-scale, computational modelling. I currently supervise three graduate students: Meghan McGill, a PhD student (whom I co-supervise with Dr. Carol Jones), Ahmed Ahmed (PhD), and Parshati Patel (MSc, whom I co-supervise with Dr. John Landstreet). I have an opening for one additional student (MSc or PhD) starting in Fall 2012.