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Brian Kent
Brian Kent is a scientist with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. He studies the dynamics of galaxies and works with 3D visualization and software for radio telescopes. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell in 2008.
Read about what he works on:
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bkent/index.html
or subscribe to his YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VisualizeAstronomy
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