Dr. Emslie is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Physics & Astronomy, at Western Kentucky University.  Prior to that, he was Associate Vice President for Research, Dean of the Graduate College, and Regents Professor of Physics at Oklahoma State University.  He was at the University of Alabama in Huntsville from 1981 to 2004, starting as an assistant professor of physics, becoming chair of that department and then Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. He is a co-investigator on the NASA Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) mission and has published over 150 scholarly articles in refereed publications.