Bio
Being interested in science from a young age, Aaron attended the University of California at
Santa Barbara in 1998 to pursue his undergraduate degree in physics. His track at the university
was through an accelerated program within the university known as the College of Creative
Studies, which allowed a deeper study into the discipline than was typical for an undergraduate
in the field. Through disciplined focus he was able to complete this degree in three years,
graduating with honors.
Returning to his hometown of Boise Idaho in 2001, Aaron began teaching mathematics at Boise
State University. Shortly thereafter he enrolled as a student in the College of Engineering, with
the goal of obtaining a degree in Materials Science. He obtained his Master’s degree in Materials
Science in 2004, with a thesis involving theoretical modeling of Bose-Einstein condensates,
written with close collaboration with the Physics Department.
After taking a one-year hiatus to travel the world in 2005, Aaron returned to Boise State to
continue teaching courses in mathematics and physics. During this time, he contributed to a
number of research endeavors, including advising on modeling chiral PVBA molecules, as well
as developing an energy-band simulation of MoSFET devices (with direction from Dr. Knowlton
in the Materials Science and Engineering Department). Aaron was eventually hired as a lecturer
by the Physics Department to teach undergraduate introductory physics courses as well as upper-
division courses in quantum physics and relativistic physics. He has been working as a lecturer in
the Physics Department from 2008 until the present. As part of the Quantum DNA research
group, he supports the Theory and Simulation team.