Alan Chodos

Alan Chodos emigrated to the United States from his native Canada at the tender age of 21. After thawing out, he obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University, and pursued a career doing research in physics until 2000, when he joined APS as Associate Executive Officer. One of the first things he did on arrival was to help create PhysicsCentral, and he has been contributing to it in one way or another ever since.

Jessica Clark

As the daughter of a US National Park Service employee, Jessica's childhood was spent in such varied locales as Kansas, the American Southwest, and the US Virgin Islands before settling in Anchorage, Alaska where she benefited from the strong science program in the local schools. Jessica received her BS, MS, and PhD in physics from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her research involved using muons (the electron's bigger brother) to probe the internal structure of protons. Armed with her PhD and her naturally caffeinated exuberance, Jessica is now determined to introduce everyone to the excitement of physics. Creating PhysicsCentral was her first task when she began working for APS in 2000.

Becky Thompson-Flagg

Becky Thompson-Flagg grew up near Annapolis, MD. After getting her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 2001 she decided she needed a change and moved to the Lone Star state where she got her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (Hook ‘em!). Her research involved studying the intricate buckling pattern at the edge of daffodils and then computationally putting them into a fourth spatial dimension. While at UT she toured Austin with her Physics Circus show, making pickles glow for elementary school kids. She joined the Physics Central team in 2008. When she is not making small explosions on her desk in the name of physics outreach she attempts to finish triathlons and bakes really tasty brownies. She has yet to set anything on fire that she didn’t mean to.

Ed Lee

A native Marylander, Ed went to college at Princeton and then came back for a masters in physics at Maryland. In addition to writing pieces for Physics in Action, he edits the APS outreach website Physics To Go and produces High School Physics Teachers' Days at the APS meetings. When not doing all this work stuff, Ed can be found tending his beloved backyard perennials.

Jennifer Ouellette

Jennifer Ouellette is the author of Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics (Penguin, 2006) and the forthcoming The Physics of the Buffyverse (Penguin, 2007). A member of the National Association of Science Writers and Author's Guild, she is associate editor of APS News and also edits the Society's Capitol Hill Quarterly. Her freelance work has appeared in Discover, Salon, and New Scientist, among other venues, and she maintains a populist Weblog called Cocktail Party Physics, with avatar/alter ego "Jen-Luc Piquant." Her article on concert hall acoustics for The Industrial Physicist magazine garnered an award in science writing from the Acoustical Society of America. She holds a black belt in jujitsu, and lives in Washington, DC.
On the Web:
http://www.jenniferouellette-writes.com
http://www.twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics

James Riordon

James studied physics at the University of Maryland, College Park . He designed instrumentation for Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas (which would have been the largest single experiment in history) until the project lost funding in 1992. Since then, James worked as an electrical engineer in a couple of particle beam labs, ran a small electronics development company, dropped everything to become a freelance science journalist, and now handles media relations for the APS. James learned to skateboard in 1972 and has been an avid skater, surfer and snowboarder ever since. In his spare time he also writes music (under the pseudonym Buzz Skyline) and plays, and is working on two books-a non-fiction look at the physics of the human body, and a science fiction story that features one nice penguin and one evil penguin.

Ernie Tretkoff

After earning an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton, Ernie studied science writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the Staff Science Writer for APS and contributes to the People in Physics feature on PhysicsCentral. Ernie enjoys oatmeal raisin cookies, playing with her cat Tabitha, and driving around town in her 1998 red VW Bug. She also aspires to knit.