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Christopher Lawson, PhD
Executive Director, Alabama EPSCoRAlabama EPSCoR Steering Committee (Non-Voting)
Chair, Coalition of EPSCoR/IDeA States
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
205-975-5059
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Dr. Lawson has been the Executive Director of Alabama EPSCoR since 2010. He is also a Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with a research specialty in optical sensing and nonlinear optics. Dr. Lawson has published over 70 journal articles and 10 books or book chapters in these areas.