Chris Mihos was born and breed in the DC area and thus is an ardent Redskins
fan.  He attended Caltech as an undergraduate.  In search of a better
college football team, he went to the University of Michigan for graduate
studies.  While there he worked with Dr. D. Richstone, an expert on galaxy
dynamics, and the budding Dr. DarkMatter, an expert on well, practicaly
nothing.   Chris managed to survive the experience of theorist vs. observer
and produced a nice thesis detailing the kinematics of merging and/or
strongly interacting galaxies, with particular focus on what happens to
the gas content and subsequent star formation history of these systems.
He then went to Santa Cruz and is currently a PostDoc.

For more reading we suggest the following:

 A Numerical Study of Star Formation in Interacting Disk Galaxies
 Astrophysical Journal 1991 Vol 377 page 72

Models of Star Formation in Interacting and Merging Disk Galaxies
 Astrophysical Journal 1992 Vol 400 page 153

Modelling the Spatial Distribution of Star Formation in Interacting
Galaxies Astrophysical Journal 1993 Vol 418 page 82 (this one is the coolest)