Brad Marston

Professor Marston joined the Brown Physics Department in 1991. A graduate of Caltech, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University. He has been a visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, a visiting professor at MIT, a visiting associate at Caltech, and a visiting professor at ENS-Lyon. Marston is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a recipient of a National Young Investigator Award, and a Fellow and lifetime member of the American Physical Society. He has chaired the KITP Advisory Board, and is a member of the American Geophysical Union. Marston was originally trained in condensed matter physics but has also worked on climate science since 1990. In 2008 Marston was designated a NSF American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow.