LTC Robert McMahon, PhD

LTC McMahon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Life Science and teaches courses in biology and nuclear engineering. In 1990 he enlisted in the US 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 B.S in biochemistry from Seton Hall. He commissioned as a chemical officer and server in the US Army Technical Escort Unit with deployments to Iraq. In 2008 he designated in Functional Area 52, Nuclear and Counterproliferation. After earning a M.S. in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, he went on to serve as a nuclear engineer at the TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactor in the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute located in Bethesda, MD.