Thomas L. Ainsworth received the A.B. degree in mathematics and mathematical physics from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 1976, the M.Sc. degree in experimental atomic physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in theoretical nuclear physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1983.
Since 1983, he has held academic research and teaching positions at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois at Urbana, KFA-Jülich (Germany), Texas A&M University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Areas of research have included computational many-body physics, quantum fluids, nuclear matter equation of state, superfluidity, and the structure and properties of neutron stars. Since joining the Remote Sensing Division at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, he has focused on atmospheric physics and, currently, the analysis of polarimetric and interferometric synthetic aperture radar imagery.