Patrick G. O'Shea Professor, IREAP and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mailing Address: Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics Energy Research Facility, Rm. 1202F University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 Phone: (301) 405-3683 Email: poshea at umd.edu FAX: (301) 314-9437

Patrick O'Shea was born in Cork, Ireland where he received his secondary education at Colaiste Chriost Ri, and his B.Sc. degree in experimental physics from University College Cork. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics are from the University of Maryland. His early research was at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked on the Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket Project (BEAR) and the APEX Free Electron Laser Project. He later worked at the Duke University Free Electron Laser Laboratory.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Professor O'Shea's experimental and theoretical research is in the area of charged particle beam technology and applications.

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