Jackson has just recently joined the WVU Planetarium in January and looks forward to sharing his love of astronomy with others. He previously served as a teaching assistant for the lab portion of Astronomy 106. His research interests are in pulsars, which are rapidly rotating stars, and the detection of gravitational waves, having joined the NANOGrav collaboration. Astronomers have recently used the predictability of pulsars to measure gravitational waves sloshing around our galaxy! His favorite planet is Jupiter because it's bigger than all other planets in our solar system combined. Jackson has Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics, Astronomy, and Math from Indiana University.