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
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
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 — 2022
Undergraduate students
Virginia Kress
Undergraduate student, Department of Astronomy (since 2021)
B.S. in Astronomy
B.A. Russian Language
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.