My primary research interests fall into two broad categories:
The search for Earth-like planets orbiting low-mass stars
The structure and evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
As an observational astronomer, one of my main goals is to develop
measurement techniques that will enable the detection and
characterization of Earth-analogs orbiting low-mass stars.
These same techniques can be used to improve our understanding
of stellar astrophysics at the bottom of the main sequence.
I believe that robotic telescopes can play an important role
in many areas of modern astrophysics and I have worked on
both optical and infrared instrumentation projects.
I also make use of photometric and spectroscopic data from
massive variability surveys and am interested in synoptic
surveys as both a way to identify transient astrophysical
phenomena and as a powerful tool for learning about
low-mass stars.