I am a multi-wavelength observational astronomer and an expert on accretion and related phenomena. My research is motivated by the desire to understand the process of accretion and the sources and environments involved in this process. The study of accretion processes is of fundamental astrophysical importance, being ubiquitous on both the largest and smallest scales, i.e., ranging from accretion by supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies at one end to star and planet formation at the other.