After receiving his doctorate in 1992 on Orbital coplanarity in solar -Type Binary Systems: Implications for Planetary System Formation and Detection, he worked for The Space Center in Alamogordo (present-day New Mexico Museum of Space History ), 1993, he founded the Southwest Institute for Space Research whose director he still is.
No senger Promotioun 1992 iwwer Orbital Coplanarity in Solar-Type Binary Systems: Implications for Planetary System Formation and Detection schafft hien ufanks fir The Space Center in Alamogordo (dem haitegen New Mexico Museum of Space History), 1993 grënnt hien d'Southwest Institute for Space Research, wou hien och Direkter ass.