EDUCATION
1967 Ph.D., Theoretical Physics (Mathematics Minor), University of Vienna, Austria
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002-Present Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Areas of interest: Bayesian methods for radiation risk and reliability analysis, probabilistic and statistical methods for external and internal radiation dosimetry
1991-2002 Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
1990-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1977-1990 Senior Scientist, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Areas of interest: Radiation risk analysis, competing risk theory, health physics, Bayesian statistics
1970-1977 Assistant Physicist (1970-1975); Associate Biophysicist (1975-1977)
Radiological Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Areas of interest: Metabolism of radionuclides, mathematical models for carcinogenesis, 222Rn-Daughter detection, analysis of Ra-dial painter data, radiation dosimetry
1967-1970 Instructor, Physics Department (1968-1970); Staff member, Division of Sponsored Research (1967-1970), Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Areas of interest: 222Rn-daughter detection, metabolism of 226Ra, exoelectron dosimetry, thermoluminescence
CONCURRENT APPOINTMENTS
1980-1981 Visiting Scientist, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan
1988-1990 Adjunct professor (Mathematics), Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Knoxville, Tennessee
CONSULTANTSHIPS
1978 Harshaw Chemical Company, Cleveland, Ohio
1980 United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)
1980 Committee on Federal Research on the Biological and Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation (FREIR Committee)
1983 Senes Consultants Limited, Hamilton, Ontario
1982-1985 Radiobiology Division, College of Medicine, University of Utah (Advisory Committee)
1985 Consultant on "Probability of Causation", Comittee on Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination (CIRRPC)
1986-1987 Senes Consultants Limited, Hamilton, Ontario
1986-1987 Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Esquires, Philadalphia, PA< (Expert on Probability of Causation)
1987-1988 Mining Safety and Health Administration (Determination of a New Working Level (WL) Standard for Underground Mines)
1988 Gunson, Pickard, and Hann, Solicitors, Hobart, Tasmania (Expert on Probability of Causation and Radiation Dosimetry)
1990 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Panel on NASA Project Ulysses
1991 Dosimetry Working Group for the U.S. Department of Energy's Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource
1991-1993 National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement Scientific Committee 85 on "Risk of Lung Cancer From Radon"
PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) [Committee on: 222Rn Measurements (1981, resigned), Influence of Radiation Quality on Dose Response Relationships (1980-1985), Radiation Exposure and Potentially Related Injury (1984-1992), Fluence as a Basis of a System of Radiation Protection for Astronauts (1992-now), Extrapolation of Risks from Non-human Experimental Systems to Man (1992-now)]
Charter member of the Society for Risk Analysis
Member of the Editorial Board for "Risk Analysis: An International Journal" (1981-1987)
Charter Member East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis (1983)
President East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for RIsk Analysis (1985)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences' BEIR IV Committee on Health Risks of Internally Deposited Alpha Emitters (1985-1987)
Reviewer for Radiation Study Section of the National Institutes fo Health (1987)
The Tennessee Mathematics and Computer Sciences Foundation, Inc. Newsletter (problem coordinator)(1986-1988)
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
RESEARCH CONTRACTS
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) through Oak Ridge Associated Universities: Bayesian Techniques for Dose Reconstruction (ongoing).
Nuclear Engineering Education Research Program (NEER), DOE: Bayesian Methods for Radiation Detection and Dosimetry (1999 - 2002).