David Burrows received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982. His thesis involved the production of the first all-sky maps of the diffuse soft X-ray background using data obtained in a series of 10 sounding rocket flights, of which he participated in the preparation and launch of six. From 1983 to the present he has been a member of the faculty of the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, where he has been involved in X-ray detector development and sounding rocket launches, analysis of HEAO-1 LED data, and archival satellite data analysis. He was the Payload Scientist in charge of the Penn State/JPL CCD imaging spectrometer sounding rocket payload that observed SN1987A in 1987 and 1988, and of the CCD imaging spectrometer payload that observed the Puppis A supernova remnant in 1990. He is a Co-Investigator on the ACIS experiment, and has been a Co-I and PI on several Einstein, IRAS, ROSAT and ASCA proposals.