Education

• Ph.D. in Physics (Astrophysics), MIT
• M.S. in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, MIT
• B.S. in Applied Physics, Caltech

Experience

• 2010-: Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu USA
• 2006-2010: Associate Professor, ibid
• 2001-2006: Assistant Professor, ibid
• 1997-2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena USA
• 1996-1997: Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge USA
• 1988-1989: Stagiare, Centre Nationale d’Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France

Recognition

• Kepler Lecturer, University of Oslo (2025)
• Gauss Prize, Göttingen (2024)
• Pfeiffer Profssor, University of Vienna (2021)
• Fulbright Professor, University of Vienna (2016)
• Pufendorf Chair of Astrobiology, University of Lund (2011)