Science is not finished until it is communicated.
Sir Mark Walport
About ME:
I am a Research Scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for
Astrophysics and Space Research. Formerly I was a Sagan
Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech, and a Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Las Cumbres Observatory. I am an observational
astronomer working primarily on time domain astronomy, in
the optical and IR.
Research Interests:
Exoplanets, brown dwarfs, binary stars; the beaming effect
(Doppler boosting), orbital phase curves; time series
astronomy, variable stars; binary white dwarfs, X-ray
binaries.
upcoming and Recent Activities:
- TESS Mission Partners Meeting, January 2026
- 247th AAS meeting, Phoenix, AZ, January 2026
- Visit to Weizmann Institute of Science, December 2025
- The first annual science meeting of the Earth 2.0 (ET)
space mission, August 2025
