• More about me

• I got my start in the museum world as an intern at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space museum in 1992. After 3 stints there, and a detour for a Masters in Plasma Physics at UW Madison, I came to the Exploratorium in 1996.

  I worked on a show called Boundaries, that attempted cluster new and rebuilt exhibits around an abstract theme. I learned that visitors are strongly inclined to focus on the most prominent aspects of an exhibit, not underlying concepts. I moved on to work on our Memory exhibition, and had a great time creating Hoop Nightmares, and exhibit where your brain adapts to prism goggles while playing basketball.
  Next, I spent two years renovating many of our classic physics exhibits, an experience that led to the writing of the Going APE grant. The APE project proved highly rewarding, and difficult, as it broke new ground in our core discipline of creating visitor driven phenomena based exhibits.

  After APE I shift gears and worked on our Mind project, creating exhibits that were simply props to stimulate phenomena that occurs in the mind of the user.
  And finally, I have started to manage a group of developers in addition to pursuing my own work.

Recent publications & presentations

• "Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement:."   Book

   2005

• "Stellarator Experiment."   IEEE transactions on Plasma Science

  December 1996