Brian T. Schwartz graduated with Honors in physics from Swarthmore College in 1997. For a couple years after that he built and tested lasers, and for a moment fulfilled his dream of being a cross between of Bill Nye the Science Guy and Weird Al Yankovic.

In 2005 he completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the first author of three peer-reviewed scientific publications. He has been a Graduate Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and a research assistant at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

His proposal to the Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform, FAIR: Free-markets, Affordability, and Individual Rights, and is accessible here. His articles on health care reform and other issues have appeared in several Colorado newspapers. He is a member of the (Boulder) Daily Camera’s Editorial Advisory Board. His archive of contributions published in Camera is here.

He blogs regularly at Patient Power and wakalix.com and is a graduate of the Bovine School of Impov Comedy. He currently works as an optical engineer in Boulder.