My Research Interests

• Exoplanetary systems and solar system
  • Characterization of exoplanets, protoplanetary disks, debris disks, and dust envelopes
  • Development of high-contrast imaging instruments for exoplanet characterization
  • Application of geophysics knowledge to understand rocky exoplanet properties
• Remote sensing of aerosol and trace gases
  • Observations of aerosol in the atmospheres of Earth and solar-system planets
  • Development of compact imaging spectropolarimeters for aerosol measurements
  • Development of compact trace-gas imagers for environmental sensing
• Solar physics
  • Observations of solar magnetic fields from radio to X-ray wavelengths
  • Interpretation of solar magnetic field observations using numerical simulations
  • Development of innovative polarimeters for observations of solar magnetic fields
• Interdisciplinary
  • Identification of biologically produced materials through spectropolarimetry
  • Adaptive optics and image analysis techniques for optical satellite communication, biomedical imaging and defense applications