Current Assignment (2006)
Durrance is currently employed by the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida, serving as a professor in the Department of Physics and Space Sciences.
He is one of the pioneers of the new Space Sciences: Astrobiology option at Florida Tech (2008).
Within the last two years he has taught several undergraduate classes including Comparative Planetology, Modern Physics, and Astrobiology, and Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.
He has also worked with graduate and undergraduate students on research dealing with astronaut health and bone loss, the detection of extrasolar planets, lunar dust electrodynamics, and very long baseline interferometry.
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