Paul received his PhD in Physics in 2011 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and prior to his current position with the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, he held research fellowships in Paris and Italy. In addition to studying the earliest moments of the Big Bang, the emptiest places in the universe, and novel methods for detecting the first stars, Paul is the host of the popular Ask a Spaceman! podcast and YouTube series, a regular contributor to Science Channel's How the Universe Works, and author of the books Your Place in the Universe and How to Die in Space. Find out more about Paul at pmsutter.com.
Video
- Why We Know Nothing about Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- Scientists Watch as Stars Quake
- A Guide to Defending the Earth
- An Astronomical Review of “Don’t Look Up”
- Yet Another Exoplanet That You’ll Never Want to Visit
- What Comes After the Moon and Mars?
- Why Astronomers Care About Super-Old Galaxies?
- What is the Multiverse?
- 3 Awesome Launches to Look Forward to This Year
- What We’ve Already Learned From James Webb? (Hint: it’s a lot)
- What Happens When Stars Kiss (Hint: They Explode)
- How Astronomers Use a Trick of Gravity to See the Most Distant Objects in the Universe