My major research interests involve (1) understanding the populations of X-ray binary systems, especially in globular clusters and (2) understanding the physics of accretion in black hole and neutron star X-ray binary systems, with occasional attempts to draw connections between accretion physics in stellar mass and supermassive black holes. I like to keep an eye on a broad range of topics in astronomy, and I occasionally get involved with other areas, such as galaxy evolution, as an offshoot of these two main themes. Most of my work involves the use of space-based data, but I often supplement this with ground-based data and I occasionally do a bit of theoretical work. A few highlights from the first theme are that I led the discovery of the first globular cluster black hole X-ray binary, which was found in the galaxy NGC 4472, and that I was a key team member for the discoveries of the first stellar mass black holes in globular clusters in our own Milky Way galaxy. I am also one of the key team members for the Chandra Galactic Bulge Surve project, coordinating the radio follow-up and some of the ultraviolet and infrared follow-up, and the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea survey project, mostly focusing on the connections with high energy astrophysics. On the theme of accretion physics, a few of my key results include the measurement of the luminosity at which accreting objects show qualitative changes to their observational appearance (and presumably accretion geometry), and having helped to pioneer the use of infrared timing measurements to understand how jets couple to accretion disks (in work led by Piergiorgio Casella, who was a Marie Curie fellow working with me at the time). Among the "offshoot" work, a key set of results came from the thesis of my first Ph.D. student, Mark Peacock, in which he produced the most comprehensive, homogeneously analyzed data set to date on the globular cluster system of M31, the spiral galaxy in Andromeda, and used the data to help solve a controversy in galaxy evolution, by showing that only certain sets theoretical models for how to turn bursts of star formation into colors were consistent with the M31 data. I also am interested in identifying new techniques for time series analysis, and figuring out how to apply them to problems in astrophysics that have not been solved by traditional time series analysis methodology.