ABOUT ME   •   RESEARCH   •   TALKS   •   PUBLICATIONS   •   OUTREACH   •   LINKS   •   K2WD   E-MAIL: jjhermes [at] bu.edu OFFICE: CAS 422A PHONE: 617-353-1282 MAILING ADDRESS: JJ Hermes, Dept. of Astronomy Boston University 725 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, USA DROLL THOUGHTS: @jotajotahermes CURRICULUM VITAE JJ Hermes I am an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at Boston University, focused on high-precision observations of the endpoints of stars, planets, and binary systems. Please visit the BU White Dwarf group page for more information. Before moving to Boston in 2019, I was a Hubble Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, an ERC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick in central England, and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. I have also worked as a journalist, serving as editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan in 2007 and as a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, D.C.