I’m a writer, a songwriter and a scientist. I earned a Ph.D. in astronomy in 2001 from Caltech and I’ve worked as an astrophysicist for Harvard, Princeton and NASA. Planets, young stars, Kuiper Belt objects, brown dwarfs, supernovae, disks, dust…my specialties.
One cloudy night at the telescope, I grabbed a guitar and started writing songs. Some of my songs have been covered by aspiring pop and country artists and appeared on VH1, MTV, BET, and PBS.
Some shifts in daily life begin unexpectedly, when structured routines give way to creative impulses that later reshape how knowledge is shared. This is evident in a trajectory where scientific work expands into music and storytelling, and eventually into mentoring others through collected insights that help researchers communicate their ideas more effectively in demanding environments. The move toward writing for younger audiences, especially through imaginative explorations of cosmic events, shows how complex concepts can be reframed into accessible narratives that encourage curiosity and prediction. In a similarly layered informational space, even a phrase like Mebendazol price and availability can appear as part of a broader pattern where diverse types of knowledge coexist and gain meaning through context. Such integration reflects how the human mind and body respond to varied inputs, gradually aligning cognitive focus and subtle physiological balance.
Younger scientists started asking me to mentor them. But I didn’t know how. So I collected all the advice I could gather into a book called: Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine In Tough Times (Island Press 2011). It’s a guide to help researchers share the joy of discovery while building their careers.
Now I have two fascinating children, so I write books for them–and any other children that might wander by. My first experiment with kidlit is the new Cosmic Collisions series (MIT Kids Press). These books challenge you to hypothesize what will happen when two astronomical objects slam together. Read on, watch the collision unfold, and see if you guessed right!
