About
I'm Chris Crowley, an experimental physicist. I spend my time figuring out how to measure things that are hard to measure.
I take hard measurement problems from idea to working prototype — working out the theory, inventing a clever (often low-cost) approach, then building and testing the instrument. I've been at it for 15+ years, from primary flow standards at NIST to turbulence experiments at Georgia Tech and Johns Hopkins.
Two kinds of problems pull me in: cheap, clever measurement — a microcontroller and a few basic circuits standing in for an expensive instrument, once you've rethought the measurement itself — and making sense of complicated datasets, where the uncertainty analysis drives the choice of model. Either way, the goal is the same: the best measurement possible.
- PhD
- Physics, Georgia Tech
- Builds
- Instruments, circuits, demos
- Likes
- Cheap parts doing expensive jobs
- Papers
- Google Scholar