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.

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 PhysicsCentral 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.

Chris Discenza

Growing up in the arid, cactus and coyote filled deserts of Tucson, Arizona, Chris developed a love for math and physics early in life. He then taught physics and mathematics for several years during which time it was mentioned that if Socrates corrupted the youth, then Chris has certainly tortured them. He cofounded a nonprofit organization called the Physics Factory that brings the enthusiasm of physics to kids across the nation. He spent several summers roaming the country from coast to coast and from the southwest to Canada, sleeping on beaches, in forests, and on top of the vegetable oil powered Physics Bus, on a mission to bring the excitement of physics to as many students as possible.When not speaking in a weird, vaguely Arizonian accent about transfinte numbers, he manages the PhysicsCentral website and podcasts with his glamorous co-podcaster Nadia Ramlagan.In his spare time he enjoys sticking his finger in dog’s mouths, scratching on his turntables, and reading books about math in cafes.

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.