People

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

Headshot of Sebastiaan Haffert

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

Dr. Kyle van Gorkom

Ph.D. in Optical Sciences, University of Arizona (2017-2021)
B.S. Physics & Philosophy, Brandeis University – 2014

Graduate students

Maggie Kautz

Ph.D. student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2019)
B.S. in Optical Sciences & Engineering, The University of Arizona — 2019

Logan Pearce

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

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

Undergraduate students

Virginia Kress

Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2021)
B.S. in Astronomy
B.A. Russian Language

Katie Twitchell

Undergraduate student, College of Optical Sciences (since 2022)

Roz Roberts

Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2022)

Alumni

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. Joseph Long

Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy — 2023
M.S. Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona — 2020
B.A. Physics, Pomona College — 2014

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.