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Personal Overview

Dr. David "Doc" Harris is a native to Melbourne, FL.  He graduated from Melbourne High School in 2002.  In 2008, he graduated as a Valedictorian of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Florida with a BS in Physics.  At the University of Utah, he programmed the data reduction pipeline for the Frisco Peak Observatory.  His dissertation research investigated the Baldwin Effect using a sample of 200,000 quasar spectra.  He earned a PhD in 2015 (awarded  in 2016).

In 2015, Doc Harris started work as a Visiting Instructor of Physics at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.  He led a small group of cadets and officers in creating a computer simulation of black hole orbital dynamics in the Milky Way Galaxy.  There, he was honored as a Robert T. Alexander Visiting Fellow in OCT 2015. 

At the completion of the Visiting Instructorship, Doc Harris returned to Florida to become a Physics Instructor at Florida Gulf Coast University. 

In January of 2019, Doc Harris became an Assistant Teaching Professor of Physics at °ÄÃÅ100%×î׼һФһÂë.  He is the Faculty Advisor for the Student Rocket Society and the °ÄÃÅ100%×î׼һФһÂë Rocketry Club.