Bradley M. Stone is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at San Jose State University. He joined the Astrochemistry Group in Spring of 1995 as a Stanford Fellow in the NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. He received his
B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1977 with Honors and High Distinction. He went on to do a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Indiana University, working
with Charles Parmenter using laser spectroscopy to study intramolecular vibrational redistribution in
polyatomic molecules (particularly p-fluorotoluene). After finishing his Ph.D. in 1984, he was a postdoctoral research associate for Edward K.C. Lee at the University of California, Irvine, where he studied laser spectroscopy of the formyl radical (HCO) and formaldehyde H2CO) in a supersonic jet. He accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Chemistry at San Jose State in 1985. He has been associated with NASA Ames Research Center since 1989 - first collaborating with Thomas Scattergood in the Solar System Exploration Branch in studying the photochemistry and photophysics of aerosol formation by the photolytic
polymerization of organics in the atmosphere of Titan; and more recently collaborating with Louis J. Allamandola in the Astrophysics Branch, studying the spectroscopy of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon cations in cryogenic matrices for the purposes of detection of the species in the interstellar medium. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Stone was principally responsible for building the laser fluorescence laboratory for the Astrochemistry group, for the study of the laser-induced fluorescence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon cations.

In 2000, San Jose State University took over the administration of the NASA Faculty Fellowship Program for Ames Research Center and Dryden Flight Research Center from Stanford University. Dr. Stone has been the Co-Director of the program since that time.