Science

What worlds populate other solar systems? What are they like? To answer these questions, I build new instruments to see things that people couldn’t study before. With these new tools we can understand our origins and who, where, and what we are.

My work is a classic version of science and empiricism: Ask a question. Think how it might be answered. Realize that we have no way to answer it. Come up with a new tool to do so, and then see what we find. That’s the crux of my work. If you don’t understand your measurements, you don’t understand your own questions or the data you receive.

Below you can see a little companion of a star only 5.7 parsecs away. It started a new subfield of astrophysics.