User:Art Carlson

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Art Carlson is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.

I am a Ph.D. physicist raised in Oregon and Mississippi and living since 1986 in Munich, Germany. I spent most of my career doing research on fusion energy before leaving to do software development. After free-lancing a while in plasma technology, technology assessment, and project management, I am now working on grid computing (AstroGrid-D) at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. My hobbies include various forms of mountaineering and snow sports, aikido, and sundials. I am married to a German journalist and have three adorable children.

I have made sizeable Wikipedia contributions on plasma physics (especially Langmuir probes), fusion energy (especially aneutronic fusion), on sundials (the Equation of Time), and on homeopathy and modern geocentrism. I hope to contribute to physical cosmology topics as I learn more about them, and am currently spending (too much) time following Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience.

		The Original Barnstar
		For a long, enviable and inadequately appreciated record of contributions to Wikipedia. Joke 04:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)