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T. Naylor is an astronomer whose research spans robotic telescope networks, precision radial velocity instrumentation, and autonomous observing systems. A central figure in the development of distributed telescope infrastructure, Naylor played a foundational role in the eSTAR (e-Science Telescopes for Astronomical Research) project, which pioneered the use of intelligent software agents to automate observation requests, data analysis, and resource discovery across global telescope networks — work spanning from 2002 through the late 2000s and accumulating dozens of citations collectively. Naylor also contributed theoretical advances in observational strategy, developing geometrically-spaced sampling techniques to optimize period searches with limited observations — a practically valuable contribution for the robotic telescope community. More recently, Naylor has been instrumental in the HARPS3 project, a high-resolution echelle spectrograph (R~115,000) designed for a roboticized Isaac Newton Telescope, aimed at detecting Earth-like exoplanets through precision radial velocity measurements — the project's description paper alone has garnered 34 citations, reflecting its significance to the field. The complementary ABORAS solar polarimeter further demonstrates Naylor's commitment to understanding stellar variability and its impact on exoplanet detection, marking a career defined by building the intelligent infrastructure modern observational astronomy depends upon.