LTC Robert McMahon, Ph.D.

LTC Robert McMahon is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Science & Engineering at the United States Military Academy (USMA), where he teaches courses in biology and nuclear engineering. 

In 1990, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a fire support specialist and served as a squad leader in the 82nd Airborne Division. He was awarded a Green to Gold Scholarship and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Seton Hall University. He commissioned as a chemical officer and served in the U.S. Army Technical Escort Unit, including deployments to Iraq. In 2008, he was designated in Functional Area 52, nuclear and counterproliferation.

After earning a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, he served as a nuclear engineer at the Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics reactor at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.