Thomas McAvoy received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1961. He received a Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1964. He taught chemical engineering for 40 years, first at the University of Massachusetts (1964-1980) and then at the University of Maryland (1980-2004). Tom is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the Institute for Systems Research, and the Bioengineering Department. He splits his time between Maryland in the winter and Massachusetts in the summer. Thomas’ interest in the Shroud began in 2014 when he attended the St. Louis conference on the Shroud of Turin. In 2019 Thomas published one paper in Applied Optics and one conference paper on his research on the analysis of the ultra violet (uv) photos taken of Shroud by STURP photographer Vern Miller in 1978. In 2019 he also gave two presentations on his uv research to the Shroud conference held in Ancaster, Canada. In 2021 Tom published a second paper in Applied Optics on his analysis of the uv Shroud photos. In 2021 he also published a paper in the International Journal of Archaeology entitled: On Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin”. To date this paper has had 1788 reads since it was put on the researchgate.net website in 2020. Tom continues to conduct research on topics related to the Shroud.

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