Dr. Sisk is a detailee from the Gas Phase Molecular Dynamics Group of the Chemistry Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory and is working on the Gas-Phase Chemical Physics program.  He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry at the University of Iowa (1984) and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics at the University of California Berkeley (1990) investigating the photodissociation dynamics of NO₂-containing precursors with Harold Johnston. He carried out postdoctoral research at Tokyo Institute of Technology with Professor Kinichi Obi (1990 – gas phase photochemistry NO₂ -containing mixtures), at Hitachi Research Laboratory with Toshiro Saito (1991 – photoconductivity of titanyl phthalocyanines dispersed in polycarbonate polymers), and at BNL with Ralph Weston Jr. (1992 – collisional energy transfer via tunable diode laser spectroscopy). In 1993 he joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina Charlotte where he has been associate professor of chemistry. In 1997 Dr. Sisk won a two-year Science Technology Agency Fellowship and utilized it to research the effect of large magnetic fields on gas phase photoluminescence at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Japan.  His research includes gas phase photochemistry and dynamics of small molecules and condensed phase photochemistry and photophysics of organic dyes. For the past several years he has collaborated with Dr. Nobuaki Tanaka of Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan to investigate photoluminescence, energy transfer, and photodegradation of polymer-dispersed dyes.  Since 2006, Wade served as a program officer for the Chemistry Research Instrumentation program at the National Science Foundation.