Hobbies: Playing the saxophone, playing squash, reading, spending time with friends and family, writing (fiction & non-fiction), playing board and card games, hiking, model building and painting, astronomy, movies, and various other geekish activities.

Photos: If you're really keen I have some pictures from my old photo album that you can check out.

A Brief History: I grew up in outback Australia in a town called Tamworth, the Country Music Capital. I first gained my love for astronomy in 1985 when my 6th grade class visited a planetarium, and have studied astronomy and planetary science ever since. After graduating from Tamworth High School in 1991, I studed Physics & Astronomy at Macquarie University in Sydney. I graduated with 1st Class Honours in 1995 and then accepted a scholarship from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, USA where I lived for the next three years.

I moved to Hobart, Australia in September, 1998 to write my Ph.D. thesis at the University of Tasmania and completed my Doctorate of Philosophy in December, 2000. I have held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of St Andrews and the University of Florida. In 2008, I moved to the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute as a Research Scientist. In the summer of 2013 I joined the faculty at San Francisco State University and built the Planetary Research Laboratory. My research group relocated to the University of California, Riverside in the summer of 2017.