Hello, and welcome.

I'm a science communicator and community science leader with a background in exoplanet research. My focus today is bringing real, ongoing science to people who think like scientists through storytelling, direct access to working researchers, and the chance to take part in active investigations. I'm currently building a new community science experience with Rakiura, connecting curious audiences with the labs doing the work.

Community science has been central to my work for years. At Unistellar and through the SETI Institute, I led citizen science programs that put a global network of amateur astronomers onto real exoplanet science — work that produced peer-reviewed publications with citizen scientists among the authors.

My research career centered on the discovery and characterization of exoplanets, especially long-period giant planets, using observatories on the ground and in space. I earned my PhD in Astronomy at Boston University, held an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Riverside and a Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellowship at UC Santa Cruz, and got my start in planetary science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Take a look around. You'll find more on my research, publications, and community science work throughout the site. And if something here sparks a question or you'd like to connect, I'd be glad to hear from you.

Clear skies,
Paul