• 2008 – present: X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory.
• 2005-2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Phonons and superconductivity in YbC6 and related compounds.
M. H. Upton, T. R. Forrest, A. C. Walters, C. A. Howard, M. Ellergy, A. H. Said and D. F. McMorrow, Phys. Rev. B 82, 134515 (2010).

Effect of number of walls on plasmon behavior in carbon nanotubes.
M. H. Upton, R. F. Klie, J. P. Hill, T. Gog, D. Casa, W. Ku, Y. Zhu, M. Y. Sfeir, J. Misewich, G. Eres and  D. Lowndes, Carbon 47, 162-168 (2008).

Thermal stability and electronic structure of Pb films on Si(111).
M. H. Upton, C. M. Wei, M. Y. Chou, T. Miller and T.-C. Chiang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 026802 (2004).

• PhD  Physics; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2005
• BA Physics; University of Chicago; 1999