Alex has a background in computational physics, having completed his PhD at George Mason University in 2014, where he worked on computational software, while researching high-temperature superconductivity through first-principle methods.

As a member of COFFIES, Alex is helping design and maintain the website you are viewing today. He is part of the CET and Broadening Impacts groups here at COFFIES. During the COFFIES annual meeting and other conferences COFFIES attends, you can generally find him helping with the technical aspects of the events.

At Stanford, Alex works on various software engineering projects with the Solar Physics Group, helping answer important questions about the Sun. He has been working on the JSOC software used to handle all data collected from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), while helping the team with software better practices. These practices include code reviews, documentation, and testing, bringing the aging codebase to a more modern state.

Alex is also a member of the United States Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE), where he is involved in the community, helping promote the role of research software engineers in the US. He is currently on the US-RSE Steering Committee, helps with the annual US-RSE conferences, and is a member of several of the working groups.