I have a Ph.D in astronomy, but my great love for design and the arts inspired me to look for a job that offered much more than just scientific research. The Museum of Flight hired me to work on their exhibit Space: Exploring the Last Frontier. Since then, I have worked on several exhibit relating to aviation and space flight.

In my former life, I used computers to make simulations of how planets form. More on this can be seen in Durisen's hydro group webpage, my resume, or in Shoot for the Stars, that article written about me in IU's College Magazine (page 5).