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LTC Robert McMahon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Chemical & Biological Science & Engineering

robert.mcmahon [at] westpoint.edu

LTC McMahon teaches courses in biology and nuclear engineering. In 1990, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a 13F, 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 of Science 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 of Science in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, he served as a nuclear engineer at the TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactor at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Biology - Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences

M.S., Nuclear Engineering - Air Force Institute of Technology

B.S., Biochemistry - Seton Hall