Dr. France’s research focuses on exoplanets and their host stars, protoplanetary disks, and the development of instrumentation for ultraviolet astrophysics. He is a member of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Community Science and Instrumentation Team (CSIT), the Principal Investigator of the ESCAPE Small Explorer mission concept, the CUTE small satellite mission, and numerous NASA-supported sounding rocket missions to study exoplanet atmospheres and flight-test critical path hardware for future UV/optical astrophysics missions. He is a regular guest observer with the Hubble Space Telescope and serves on numerous science and technical advisory groups for NASA. He was a member of the HST-COS instrument and science teams and the study PI for the LUVOIR ultraviolet spectrograph.
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astrophysics of interstellar and circumstellar gases, ultraviolet spectroscopy, astronomical instrumentation, exoplanetary atmospheres
