Philip Muirhead
Associate Professor
- Title Associate Professor
- Office CAS 403
- Email philipm@bu,edu
- Phone 353-6553
- Education B.Sc., University of Michigan
M.Sc., Ph.D., Cornell University
I lead the Low-mass Star Group at Boston University. We aim to determine the fundamental properties and galactic demographics of low-mass stars and the planets that orbit them. I am the Principal Investigator of the Perkins Infrared Exosatellite Survey (PINES), a NASA-funded search for exosatellites orbiting L and T dwarfs.
Publications on ADS, Google Scholar, Publons, ORCID, ResearchGate
In the Media: His Holy Grail would be detecting life on another planet (June 2018)
Wanted: Red Dwarfs for TESS Mission (April 2018)
TRAPPIST-1 discovery holds promise for BU astronomers (March 2017)
Newly discovered network of planets could harbor water and life, scientists say (February 2017)
The best bet for alien life might be planetary systems very different from ours (January 2015)