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
Graduate students
Justin Knight
Graduate Student, College of Optical Sciences
Alex Rodack
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences
Jennifer (Jhen) Lumbres
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences
Lauren Schatz
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2015)
B.S. Physics, University of California: Santa Cruz-2015
Kyle van Gorkom
Graduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2017)
B.S. Physics & Philosophy, Brandeis University – 2014
Joseph Long
Graduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2017)
B.A. Physics, Pomona College — 2014
Joseph is working to understand the exoplanet populations around young stars and developing algorithms to tease signals from high-contrast imaging data.
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
Undergraduate students
Could this be you? Contact Jared Males.
Alumni
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
Currently at Leiden Observatory for postdoctoral work.
The Extreme Wavefront Control Lab also gratefully acknowledges the support of animals, wild and domesticated, that continue to make our work possible.