Since obtaining a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Warwick in 1978, I went on to obtain a doctorate at the University of York. Later, I held a Royal Society Research Fellowship at Gent University in Belgium and in 1995 held a von Humboldt Fellowship at the Technical University in Freiberg, Germany.  I have been a faculty member of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA since 1990. I work in the area of Clifford analysis which is a study of the analysis and geometry of Dirac operators and their applications. I have edited three books and organized several conferences. A complete list of my publications can be viewed at http://comp.uark.edu/~jryan/pubsr.html as well as my home page at http://comp.uark.edu/~jryan/.   My wife, Christine, is from Connecticut and we have two daughters, Tammy and Danielle.  Tammy is an aspiring opera singing and Danielle is a senior in high school.