Benjamin Pope researches extrasolar planets and focuses on developing and applying new data science approaches for detecting and characterizing them. He studied for his Honors and Masters at the University of Sydney and studied abroad at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2017 he completed his DPhil in Astrophysics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was then a NASA Sagan Fellow at New York University, before joining the University of Queensland as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics. He is now an associate professor at Macquarie University.
