Professor of Astrophysical, Planetary, and Space Sciences
Associate Director, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences
College of Science, George Mason University
pbecker@gmu.edu, 703-993-3619 (voice), 703-993-1993 (fax)
I received my doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1987, working under the supervision of Dr. Mitchell C. Begelman at the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. From 1987 to 1989, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, and during 1989-1992, I was an NRC/NAS Cooperative Research Associate at the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Since 1992, I have been a faculty member at George Mason University. I am currently affiliated with the Department of Computational & Data Sciences and the Department of Physics & Astronomy in the College of Science, where I also serve as the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.
