VITA -- EUGENE H. AVRETT Education: B. S., Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1957 Ph. D., Physics, Harvard University, 1962 Positions held: 1962 - 2000, Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 2000 - present, Senior Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 1964 - 2000, Lecturer in Astronomy, Harvard University 1973 - 1986, Associate Letters Editor, The Astrophysical Journal 1986 - 2002, Deputy Letters Editor, The Astrophyscial Journal 1989 - 2002, Harvard representative to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder 1996 - 2004, Associate Director for Solar, Stellar & Planetary Sciences, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Professional Societies: American Astronomical Society International Astronomical Union American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1990 - present General Fields of Investigation: Radiative transfer and atmospheric modeling Detailed modeling of the solar atmosphere Physical processes in stellar atmospheres and gaseous nebulae (Last revised: 2006 March 3)