I grew up in Denver, as a little bit of an academic nerd, fascinated with math, physics, music and writing, pursuing these through college at the University of Chicago. I was back in Colorado for my PhD in Astrophysics (at CU-Boulder), and then I traveled widely for postdoctoral and research-scientist positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, l'Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, the University of Durham in the UK, and the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain. The last couple of years, I have been based back in Denver, now affiliated as a Research Scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a virtual institute that aligns with my strong interest in science communication and appreciation of our place in the Universe and our interconnection with its various systems. with an amazing community and activities, including a Young Scientist Program, through which I am mentoring students. I also occasionally teach in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Denver.

In the last several years, my focus has broadened to include not just astrophysics and cosmology, but various other systems in nature, especially that large class of them that have some relation to the large-scale flows of matter in the cosmic web. For example, river networks, trees, circulatory systems, and geothermal fluids flow and transport matter efficiently through branching structures that bear some analogy to the cosmic web. It is my goal to establish, or falsify, rigorous links between these systems, links that I have found can have profound artistic and meditative value.