Dr. Richard Batman was born and grew up in Northeast Ohio. After defending his dissertation
on computational studies of surface segregation in polymer mixtures, he graduated
in 2004 with a Ph.D. in physics from Kent State University and immediately took a
one-year position doing computational research on the mechanical properties of biopolymer
networks in the Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science in Akron, Ohio. He taught
for one year at the College of Wooster in Ohio, two years at Central Michigan University,
and three years at the Louisiana School for Math Science, and the Arts, before becoming
a Senior Lecturer in Physics at The University of Texas at Tyler in fall of 2010 and
was promoted to Associate Professor of Instruction in Physics in 202X.