David Kipping is an Associate Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University and the Director of the Cool Worlds team. His group studies the exoplanet demographics, detection techniques and the search for exomoons, for which his team found the first two candidates. Kipping has also published extensively in astrostatistics, astrobiology and technosignatures, with a particularly speciality in the Bayesian interpretation of limited data sets. Besides from research, he runs a popular science communication YouTube channel (Cool Worlds) that discusses his team’s research and broader activities within the field.
David Kipping
Associate Professor, Astronomy, Columbia University
Director, Cool Worlds team
Papers / Presentations
Formulation and Resolutions of the Red Sky Paradox (2021)
An Objective Bayesian Analysis of Life’s Early Start and Our Late Arrival (2020)
Participant In These Roundtable Discussions
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Life Beyond Earth: When and How Will it be Found?
Astrobiology is the study of life on the universe. It uses an understanding of the nature and history of life on this planet to frame expectations for biology beyond Earth. Starting in 1995, astronomers have discovered exoplanets: planets orbiting other stars. Over 5300 have been confirmed, and it’s likely there are more planets than stars in the... read more! »