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M. Hundertmark is a leading figure in the field of gravitational microlensing, whose work has been pivotal in automating the search for exoplanets and stellar-mass objects. Their primary research focuses on developing fully deterministic, robotic observing strategies to infer the demographics of exoplanet populations. Hundertmark’s most significant contribution is the realisation of a fully-deterministic microlensing strategy, detailed in their highly cited 2010 paper (88 citations), which laid the groundwork for automated, real-time detection of planetary anomalies. This work culminated in the first automated real-time detection of a weak microlensing anomaly in OGLE-2008-BLG-510 (25 citations), a landmark achievement that identified a brown dwarf or stellar binary without human intervention. Hundertmark also developed the RoboTAP system (10 citations), a priority algorithm for robotic telescopes that enables efficient follow-up of transient events. Their research extends to inferring planet population statistics through automated searches (6 citations) and detailed binary microlensing analyses, such as OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 (5 citations). By pioneering automation in microlensing, Hundertmark has dramatically increased the efficiency and scope of exoplanet discovery, enabling the statistical study of planetary systems across the galaxy.