My research interests are mainly in close binary stars.
Binary stars consist of two stars in orbit around another and make up most of the stars in the sky.
Many binary stars are far enough from each other that they act as two individual stars which just happen to have a common orbit. Close binary stars are another matter. They are close enough that sometime during their evolution one of them will overflow onto the other. This interaction produces some very exciting phenomena and well as giving the stars many twists and turns in their evolutionary process. My research has focused on obtaining and analyzing light curves of close binary stars in order to determine their fundamental properties.