Philip Marcus received his B.S. in Physics from Caltech in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton in 1978. As a post-doc at Cornell in Astronomy he became interested in large-scale numerical simulations of convection in stars and laboratory flows using spectral methods. While an assistant professor from 1980-83 at MIT in Applied Math he concentrated on the development of numerical algorithms and their application to the nonlinear dynamics of rotating flows such as Couette-Taylor flows. He became interested in long-lived vortices and their application to planetary atmospheres as an associate professor of Astronomy and Applied Math at Harvard from 1983-1986. Currently he is Professor of Fluid Dynamics at UC Berkeley in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where is is working on geophysical fluid dynamics, turbulent bursts and mixing, and aircraft-wake vortices.
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