[1] Prior to this, he was a professor at Princeton University and vice dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
[2] He is a pioneer[3] of the starshade technique for suppressing starlight to enable the direct detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars.
[6] His earlier work included involvement with NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, a mission studied in the 2000s; an innovative concept for a planet-finding telescope with an unusual pupil,[7] and Gravity Probe B. Kasdin has also been involved with developing a means of tracking birds or other migratory animals anywhere in the world.
[8][9] He is currently the leader of the coronagraph science (the Adjutant Scientist) for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission.
[10] Kasdin's work on shaped pupil coronagraphy,[11] one of the techniques being developed for Roman, has demonstrated high contrast imaging over a restricted field of view near a bright object such as a star.