The overarching theme of Maulik Parikh's research is gravity. Gravity is at once our most familiar and least understood force. A century ago, Einstein revealed that gravitation is intimately connected with the curvature of the fabric of space and time. More recently, the study of black holes appears to be pointing to an even more surprising lesson: that our gravitational world might be the hologram cast by a lower-dimensional quantum field theory. Parikh's research interests span numerous areas in gravitation, including the foundations of general relativity, the topology of spacetime, black holes, theoretical cosmology, the physics of event horizons, and the gravitational aspects of quantum theories of gravity, particularly string theory.