About

I am a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Western University and a member of the Western Meteor Physics Group. My research is on the small bodies of the solar system — meteoroids, comets, asteroids and the meteorites and fireballs they produce.

I completed my PhD at Western in 1999, spent a year as a Director-sponsored post-doctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and joined the Western faculty in 2000. I have held a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in planetary science, and previously Tier I and Tier II chairs in planetary small bodies and meteor science.

Selected honours

• Canada Research Chair (Tier I), Planetary Science
• Plaskett Medal, Canadian Astronomical Society / RASC (2001)
• Western Faculty of Science Distinguished University Professor (2013–14)
• Florence Bucke Science Prize, Western (2006)
• Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award; Premier’s Research Excellence Award

Research at a glance

• 217refereed journal papers
• 7 / 2papers in Nature / Science
• 12,700+citations (h-index 59)
• 1book authored, 1 edited, 27 chapters

A full list of my work is on the publications page, on Google Scholar, and on NASA ADS. A condensed CV is available on request.