Office: Department of Astronomy, RM 315
University of Florida
Address: 211 Bryant Space Science Center
PO Box 112055, Gainesville, FL 32611-2052
Phone: (352) 392-2052 Ext: 257
Fax: (352) 392-5089
Email: jcrepp@astro.ufl.edu
My favorite branch of astronomy is the on-going search for extrasolar planets. This is a young and rapidly growing field and may one day lead to the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe.
Currently, I am a fifth year graduate student at the University of Florida working on my PhD thesis (of which I plan to finish soon!) with Dr. Jian Ge. My research involves developing technology for the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission and ground-based stellar coronagraphs. In particular, I am pursuing the first dedicated search for faint companions to visual binary stars at Palomar Observatory using a band-limited coronagraphic mask.
I am also a member of a large team whose goal is to detect extrasolar planets using the Doppler radial velocity technique, with the Exoplanet Tracker (ET) instrument at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) and the Multi-object Keck ET instrument at Apache Point Observatory.
Please feel free to send me an email if you are a prospective graduate student, are looking for a public outreach speaker,
or just simply love astronomy.