Faculty
Dr. Jared R. Males
MagAO-X project PI
MagAO/VisAO PI
Dr. Katie Morzinski
MagAO/Clio PI
MagAO-X MEMS consultant and instrument+science team member
Professor Laird Close
MagAO project PI
MagAO-X optomechanical design lead
Professor Olivier Guyon
MagAO-X real-time software lead and coronagraph guru
Dr. Sebastiaan Haffert
Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Steward Observatory Postdoctoral researcher (2022-2024)
NASA Hubble Fellow, Steward Observatory (2019-2021)
PhD in Astronomy, Leiden University, 2019
MSc. Astronomy, Leiden University, 2015
BSc. Physics, Leiden University, 2013
BSc. Astronomy, Leiden University, 2013
Dr. Kyle van Gorkom
Research Professor, Steward Observatory
Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, University of Arizona (2017-2021)
B.S. Physics & Philosophy, Brandeis University – 2014
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Joseph Long
Flatiron Software Research Fellow, Flatiron Center for Computational Astrophysics (since 2024)
Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona — 2023
M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona — 2020
B.A. Physics, Pomona College — 2014
Miles Lucas
Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Hawaii – expected 2025
Alan Brass Prize PostDoc, Steward Observatory 2025
Graduate students
Jay Kueny
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2020)
B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University – 2019
Jialin Li
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2022)
B.S. in Physics, University of California: Santa Cruz — 2022
Eden McEwen
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2022)
B.A. in Physics & Computer Science, University of California: Berkeley — 2021
Josh Liberman
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2023)
B.A. in Astrophysics, Colgate University— 2022
Katie Twitchell
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2024)
B.S. in Optical Sciences & Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2024
Parker Johnson
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2024)
B.S. in Physics, University of North Dakota — 2024
Undergraduate students
Trevor Snedden
Undergraduate, Bachelors of applied computing, Artificial Inteligence (since 2023)
Alumni
Dr. Tiago Gualberto Bezerra de Souza
Steward Observatory Postdoctoral researcher (2024-2025)
PhD in Physics, Universidade de São Paulo — 2019
Clarissa Pavao
Graduate student, Department of Physics (2024)
M.S. in Applied Physics and Instrumentation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — 2024
B.S. in Physics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — 2023
Maggie Kautz
Ph.D. student, College of Optical Sciences — 2024
B.S. in Optical Sciences & Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2019
Logan Pearce
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy — 2024
B.S. in Astronomy & B.S. in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin — 2019
M.A. in Education, The University of Texas at Austin — 2014
B.S. in Chemistry, Purdue University — 2003
Virginia Kress
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (2021-2023)
B.S. in Astronomy
B.A. Russian Language
Roz Roberts
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (2022-2023)
Warren Foster
M.S. Optical Sciences, College of Optical Sciences (2023)
Avalon McLeod
M.S. Optical Sciences (2023)
B.S. in Optical Sciences and Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2022
Dr. Alex Hedglen
Ph.D. student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2017)
Meghan O’Brien
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy
B.S. Astronomy (anticipated 2023)
Minor in Mathematics
Dr. Alex Rodack
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2022
Dr. Jennifer (Jhen) Lumbres
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2021
Dr. Lauren Schatz
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2021
B.S. in Physics, University of California: Santa Cruz — 2015
Dr. Justin Knight
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2020
Chris Bohlman
B.S. in Computer Science, The University of Arizona — 2019
Madison Jean
B.S in Optical Sciences & Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2019
Dr. Kelsey Miller
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2018
The Extreme Wavefront Control Lab also gratefully acknowledges the support of animals, wild and domesticated, that continue to make our work possible.