aaron@cosmicfrontier.org
I am the Director of Cosmic Frontier Labs, where we build scientific tools to explore and discover the Universe.
When I find time for science my research focuses on multi-messenger astrophysics (with light across the spectrum, gravitational waves, and occasionally neutrinos), relativistic explosions, and black hole formation. I am interested in using astrophysical phenomena to probe physics that is inaccessible to terrestrial laboratories.
I was previously a NASA Einstein Fellow, and Experimental Physics Prize Fellow, at Caltech. I received my PhD from the University of Toronto, where I was a Canada Vanier Scholar in Astrophysics, and led the Space Telescope Development Group. Before that I was an Observatory Scientist for NASA's Swift mission.
In previous lives I built bikes, repaired vehicles, and guided people up (and usually also down) mountains. These days I live in a barn with four horses, 2 dogs, 12 chickens, and my human partner.
CV available on request, you can find most of my papers here.