 I'm a little unusual in the sense that I do both theory and observations and also supercomputer simulations and my main research areas are trying to understand the lives and deaths of stars. One of the things that we had discovered here in my group recently is that we can use the chemical composition of stars to learn what kind of planets would be residing around other stars. This is very fascinating because it's very very difficult to to identify these small planets around other stars. Most of the planets astronomers have found so far are giant planets but this is a completely new way of trying to identify stars that are likely to harbor small planets so more earth-like planets. The next decade or two decades it's quite likely the astronomers will be able to identify signatures of life what we call biosignatures in the atmosphere of other other planets so whether they contain methane or things that probably can only be produced by some kind of life on those planets. I love problem-solving to tackle really difficult challenging problems it's kind of the big big questions are we alone in this universe where do we come from where did it all start the universe it's a very very satisfying problem that we have.