Faculty
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Dr. Jared R. Males
MagAO-X project PI
MagAO/VisAO PI
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Dr. Katie Morzinski
MagAO/Clio PI
MagAO-X MEMS consultant and instrument+science team member
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Professor Laird Close
MagAO project PI
MagAO-X optomechanical design lead
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Professor Olivier Guyon
MagAO-X real-time software lead and coronagraph guru
Postdoctoral researchers
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Dr. Sebastiaan Haffert
Postdoctoral researcher (since 2019)
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
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Dr. Kyle van Gorkom
Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, University of Arizona (2017-2021)
B.S. Physics & Philosophy, Brandeis University – 2014
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Dr. Joseph Long
Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy — 2023
M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona — 2020
B.A. Physics, Pomona College — 2014
Graduate students
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Maggie Kautz
Ph.D. student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2019)
B.S. in Optical Sciences & Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2019
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Logan Pearce
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2019)
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
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Jay Kueny
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2020)
B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University – 2019
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Jialin Li
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2022)
B.S. in Physics, University of California: Santa Cruz — 2022
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Eden McEwen
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2022)
B.A. in Physics & Computer Science, University of California: Berkeley — 2021
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Josh Liberman
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2023)
B.A. in Astrophysics, Colgate University— 2022
Undergraduate students
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Katie Twitchell
Undergraduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2022)
Alumni
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Virginia Kress
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2021)
B.S. in Astronomy
B.A. Russian Language
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Roz Roberts
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2022)
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Warren Foster
M.S. Optical Sciences, College of Optical Sciences (2023)
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Avalon McLeod
M.S. Optical Sciences (2023)
B.S. in Optical Sciences and Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2022
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Dr. Joseph Long
Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy — 2023
M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona — 2020
B.A. Physics, Pomona College — 2014
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Dr. Alex Hedglen
Ph.D. student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2017)
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Meghan O’Brien
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy
B.S. Astronomy (anticipated 2023)
Minor in Mathematics
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Dr. Alex Rodack
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2022
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Dr. Jennifer (Jhen) Lumbres
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2021
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Dr. Lauren Schatz
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2021
B.S. in Physics, University of California: Santa Cruz — 2015
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Dr. Justin Knight
Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences — 2020
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Chris Bohlman
B.S. in Computer Science, The University of Arizona — 2019
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Madison Jean
B.S in Optical Sciences & Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2019
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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.