I'm currently a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Bucknell University. I am skilled at asking insightful questions, thinking about projects from multiple angles, and developing creative solutions.
A list of all of my publications and my first-authored publications are available via ADS.
My background as an astronomer and university professor has given me a broad range of research, management, and communication skills.
Here's some fun things I've accomplished:
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, we recently published the discovery of Oph 98 AB, a very young (3 million year) system which includes objects with masses of 15 and 8 times that of Jupiter. The gravity holding this system together is weaker than any other known system, making Oph 98 a unique test for formation and evolution theories.
We compared measurements of the rotation speed of a brown dwarf at radio and infrared wavelengths to measure a whopping windspeed of 650 m/s (or 1425 mph)! Our observations with the Very Large Array and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope verified that this technique can work to measure atmospheric winds not only on brown dwarfs, but also on extrasolar planets in the future.
I wrote the module for the facility data reduction package for the TripleSpec4.1 spectrograph on the Blanco and SOAR Telescopes.