Before The Abstract

Conversations with his airplane seatmates lead Kaspar von Braun's career in a different and unforeseen direction. Kaspar von Braun is an astrophysicist at Lowell Observatory. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2002 with a study of eclipsing binary stars in Galactic globular clusters. Since then, he has changed to the field of exoplanets, working on detection and characterization of transiting exoplanets. His current work involves the interferometric analysis of exoplanet host stars to gain information on the planets themselves – you understand the exoplanet only as well as the host star, if you are lucky.