Associate Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University, Director the Cool Worlds Lab and creator of the Cool Worlds YouTube channel and podcast. His team’s research seeks to detect and study new worlds outside of the Solar System, understand our uniqueness or banality within the Universe and develop new methods and technologies to realise these goals. Prof Kipping has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific articles, with his work supported by NASA, NSF and private donations. He's been awarded multiple prizes such as the Alfred P. Sloan Prize Fellowship and Popular Science Magazine’s Brilliant 10, and his YouTube channel has over 750,000 subscribers.