With diplomas from both a scientific lyceum in Florence Italy and a high school in Miami Beach and college enrollment in places as disparate as the University of California and the University of Bologna, David's academic record is a reflection of multiple interests. Following several years playing soccer in Italy's lower divisions - where as an undergraduate he attended the oldest university in Europe - and in the USA in the USISL, he obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Maryland where he developed interest, and currently conducts research, in black hole astrophysics. After postdoctoral work as a NASA fellow and as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California, and several years of teaching at various California schools including the California State University, he moved to Columbia University in New York where he was a lecturer in the Physics Department and an adjunct at Fordham University in the Bronx.  He is now faculty in the Department of Physics at Kennesaw State University. Click David Garofalo's Corner for his blog.

 

Education

June 2008 PhD Physics                             University of Maryland, College Park 

August 1999 BS Physics & Astronomy      University of Maryland, University of Bologna, University of California 

 

Work History
 
2020 -  Present    Kennesaw State University                            Associate Professor of Physics
2014 – 2020           Kennesaw State University                            Assistant Professor of Physics
2013 – 2014            Southern Polytechnic State University       Lecturer of Physics

2012 -  2013            Fordham University                                         Adjunct
2012 -  2013            Columbia University                                        Lecturer in Discipline of Physics
2010 -  2011            NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory                  Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar

2009 – 2012           California State University                              Adjunct

2009 -  2011           Harvey Mudd College                                      Adjunct
2008 -  2010          NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory                  NPP Fellow