I'm passionate about astronomy in general and the search for extrasolar planets in particular. I design and build telescopes to discover and characterize worlds orbiting nearby stars, with the ultimate goal of developing methods to study the atmospheres...
I received my BS in physics from the Missouri University for Science and Technology, and my PhD in astrophysics from UC Berkeley. As a professor of astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, my research is focused on the detection and...
I’m a Professor of both physics and astronomy here at Harvard. I remain in a profound state of confusion regarding dark matter and dark energy, the primary constituents of the Universe. Lately I’ve been working on getting the Large Synoptic Survey up and...