Dr. de Wit leads the Disruptive Planets Group at MIT whose central mission is to discover and study new worlds to consolidate our understanding of planets and habitats. His primary interest and expertise lie in the field of data science where Math and Science are brought together to make sense of newly accessible pieces of Reality. Over the past ten years, he has developed and applied new analysis techniques to map exoplanet atmospheres, study the radiative and tidal planet-star interactions in eccentric planetary systems, and constrain the atmospheric properties of exoplanets.