Craig Lage

I grew up and attended high school in suburban Chicago. After obtaining a BS in Physics from Caltech, I attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, obtaining MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Electrical Engineering. I then had a rewarding career in microelectronics, working primarily for Hewlett-Packard, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor).

In 2009 I made the decision to return to graduate school, and obtained a PhD in astrophysics from New York University in Sept, 2014. In Oct, 2014, I began a Postdoctoral appointment at UC Davis working on the CCD detectors for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, and am currently a researcher at UC Davis, working both in Davis and in La Serena, Chile. My wife Sharon and I are enjoying the many cycling opportunites in the Davis area.

Check out Sharon's blog from our Mississippi bike trip during the summer of 2014.

Also Sharon's blog from our European bike tour during the summer of 2017.

More information is available in my CV.