During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.