As Senior Associate Dean for Research Computing, Curt works with faculty to provide the computational, data management and data storage resources, support and training they need to enable and advance their research. His team operates and manages the computational and data storage hardware, provides software and data management resources, supports the researchers using those resources through research facilitation and training, offers visualization and geographical information systems services, and provides research software engineering services across all divisions of the University.

Curt arrived at Princeton as a graduate student in 1989. In 1995 he joined the central information technology department of the University administering servers, building large storage systems, and eventually leading the group that provided the server and storage infrastructure of the administrative systems of the University. In 2002 he started the group that has grown into Research Computing.

Curt has participated in and provided leadership in the national research computing and data community. He has served as the secretary, vice chair, and chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). He has been active in EDUCAUSE, leading the Research Computing and Data Community Group, participating in the program committee for the annual conference, and contributing to the Top 10 IT issues effort. He also participates in the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC).

Curt received his B.S. in Chemistry from Lehigh University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University.