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
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Sebastiaan Haffert
NASA Postdoctoral Hubble Fellow, Steward Observatory (since 2019)
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
Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, University of Arizona (2017-2021)
B.S. Physics & Philosophy, Brandeis University – 2014
Graduate students
Alex Rodack
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences
Joseph Long
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2017)
B.A. Physics, Pomona College — 2014
Alex Hedglen
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2017)
Maggie Kautz
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2019)
B.S. in Optical Sciences & Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2019
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
Warren Foster
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2020)
Jay Kueny
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2020)
B.S. in Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University – 2019
Undergraduate students
Avalon McLeod
Undergraduate student, College of Optical Sciences
B.S. Optical Sciences and Engineering (anticipated 2022)
Minor in Mathematics and Astronomy
Meghan O’Brien
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy
B.S. Astronomy (anticipated 2023)
Minor in Mathematics
Virginia Kress
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2021)
B.S. in Astronomy
B.A. Russian Language
Alumni
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.