Diploma in Theoretical Physics, Charles University in Prague Ph.D. in Physics, University of California Professor at SUNY Albany, Purdue University, University of Oklahoma, and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia Since 2001 a Senior Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory Fields of interest: Climate change, light scattering, Jewish and Christian Kabbalah, spirituality Major Honors: Fellow of the American Optical Society, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Recipient of the 2017 Van De Hulst Price. Author and co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications.