MinXSS-1, MinXSS-2, and DAXSS Team has worked to create CubeSats to measure the Solar soft X-ray spectra.

Hinode XRT is a soft X-ray imaging telescope that is a consortium between SAO, JAXA, NASA MSFC, MSU, and more.

SSAXI-Rocket is a solar physics X-ray imager instrument on the Hi-C Flare NASA Sounding rocket payload, designed to measure the brightest solar flares.

SSAXI-SmallSat is an astrophysics and solar physics mission under development to measure the quiescent soft X-ray flux and tiny transients. 

Hi-C is an extreme ultraviolet imaging telescope on a NASA sounding rocket that is a consortium between the CfA,, NASA MSFC, MSU, and more.

ECCCO is an EUV spectral imaging instrument suite that is a consortium between SAO, SWRI, and BAE.

SEEJ is an astrophysics mission concept to measure the atmosphereic properties of hot Jupiters and the variability of their host stars using soft X-ray spectral transits.

Research Interest: Solar flares, X-rays and discovering new phenomena

Research Project: Solar Flare Plasma Transport Inferred from Elemental Abundance Changes using soft X-ray Spectra

Current Institution: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Vanderbilt University

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Solar spectropolarimetry, optical designing, instrumentation, atomic physics, coronal magnetism and its implications on the Sun's dynamics

Research Project: CfA project on the development of a high vacuum system for X-ray and EUV photon detection.

Current Institution: Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA)

Websites: Researchgate

Research Interest:Energy release and evolution of solar flares and CMEs, Fine structures during solar eruptions (e.g., turbulent flows,supra-arcade downflows, current sheets, plasmoids, EUV waves), Impact of turbulence on physical process flares andCMEs, calibration on astrophysical soft-X ray and EUV instruments

Research Project: Leading the project on revealing the role of energy transfer of supra-arcade downflows, collaborating on cross-calibration between Hinode/XRT soft X-ray imager and cubesats DAXSS and MinXSS , and participating on 3D flare MHDand particle simulations.

Current Institution: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)

Websites: CfA Page

Research Interest: Interested Neutrino physics. X0ray detectors. X-ray mirrors.

Research Project: X-ray detector testing. X-ray optics modeling. Vacuum chamber build and operation.

Current Institution: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Websites: Github

Research Interest: Physics & Mathematics.  Solar physics, coronal shocks, CMEs, solar flares.

Research Project: Data Characterizing X-ray detectors. Building radioactive source holders for lab experiments.

Current Institution: Tufts University

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Open-source software, Python coding for testing/debugging, instrument operations, high-energy solar events such as solar flares.

Research Project: Hinode-X-Ray Telescope (XRT)  instrument operations, data analysis, and leads the development of XRTpy, a Python package for XRT data analysis. Additionally, supports the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Solar Wind Electrons Alphas & Protons (SWEAP) team, focusing on creating code for data validation, testing methods, and spacecraft-instrument activities.

Current Institution: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Passionate about data integrity given to statistical inference models. Concentrates on using scaled High-Performance Computing and Machine Learning techniques to curate data products that increase the validity and veracity of science applied to solar flares, atmospheric Heliophysics, and the Earth-Sun system.

Research Project:  ​Jorge developed the ALEXIS pipeline capable of ingesting 100’s of TB of EUV data to produce a novel data product for Solar Flare prediction.

Current Institution: Vanderbilt University

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science; Wanting to study/work in Data Science/Statistics.

Research Project: Data Exploration in Search of Small Pulsations in Solar X-Ray Flares with the Hinode X-ray Telescope (XRT)

Current Institution: CUNY - City College of New York

Websites: Github website

Research Interest: Interested in fusion, plasma physics, sustainability, and experimentation

Research Project: Testing Lab-based X-ray CMOS detectors. ASCENT  balloon-based gamma-ray observatory.

Current Institution: University of New Hampshire

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Solar flares, their effect on the surrounding solar atmosphere, the energyrelease mechanism and their long term effect on Earth's atmosphere.

Research Project: CfA project on Solar Flare thermal and non-thermal energy partition (Co-Advised with Dr. Kathy Reeves) . Also a member of the Solar Ultraviolet ImagingTelescope (SUIT) team on Aditya-L1.

Current Institution: The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)

Websites: IUCAA

Research Interest: Software engineering, solar physics, non-lineardynamics and numerical simulations.

Research Project: Development of automatic data processing software for X-ray spectrometers.

Current Institution: TU Delft/Northeastern University

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Instrumentation, robotics engineering, solar physics.

Research Project: Characterizing the noise of a CMOS soft x-ray detector from readout rates

Current Institution: University of Colorado Boulder/New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Magnetic reconnection, plasma dynamics and energetics, patterns of magnetic activity, instabilities and state change, high energy astrophysics and heliophysics, scientific computing, x-ray detectors, and mission development.

Research Project: Swift Solar Activity X-ray Imager (SSAXI-Rocket) mission; Energetics and dynamics of large solar flares via observation, simulation             (co-advised Kathy Reeves), and instrumentation.

Current Institution: University of Maryland/Harvard Department of Astronomy 

Websites: https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/sophia-sanchez-maes

Research Interest: Currently participating in projects within the areas of nanophotonics, solar physics instrumentation, and experimental cosmology, but hopes to pursue applied physics or computational astrophysics for graduate studies.

Research Project: Characterizing the spectral resolution of silicon CMOS detectors for solar physics.

Current Institution: MIT Lincoln Laboratory/Cornell University

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Galaxy evolution, stellar evolution, instrumentation, dark matter, black holes, interdisciplinary studies.

Research Project: Aiding in the development of instrumentation through the process of launching the SSAXI-Rocket mission to observe large solar flares.

Current Institution: 

Georgia Institute of Technology/University of Massachusetts Boston

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Macroeconomic theory, data science, personality psychology

Research Project: Analysis of the Distribution of Flare Loop Emission using Multiple Channels of SDO/AIA Observation (Final Presentation Video)

Current Institution: University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: My goal is to pursue a PhD in a field related to astronomical imaging (possibly optics).

Research Project: Calibrate CMOS detectors for scientific measurements.

Current Institution: Rochester Institute of Technology

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Black Hole Theory and General Relativity

Research Project: Solar Flare Soft X-Ray Time Series Spectrum Reconstruction 

synthesize missing soft X-ray data in order to better understand the

interaction of Earth's atmosphere with soft X-rays emitted from solar flares.

Current Institution: Towson University

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: solar physics, Stellar dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, High energy astrophysics and cosmology, Dark matter

Research Project: Analyze the relationship between photospheric magnetic field and soft x-ray flux in the corona.

Current Institution: University of California Santa Barbara

Websites:

Research Interest: Material science and materials engineering. 

Research Project: Enhance and upgrade test equipment that is designed to characterize the performance of space flight optics.

Current Institution: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Systems and software engineering for autonomous systems. 

Research Project: Created software to control photodiode detectors for autonomous VUV mirror reflectance measurements in vacuum chambers.

Current Institution: University of Colorado Boulder Masters Student

Websites: https://github.com/nicholasRenninger

Research Interest: Mechanical engineering 

Research Project: Created mechanical support structures for vacuum systems to test UV mirrors.

Current Institution: Northwestern University, PhD in Engineering Sciences and Applied Math

Websites: LinkedIn

Research Interest: Myra Makes

Research Project: Measurement of thin film UV optical constants.

Current Institution: Myra Makes

Websites: LinkedIn, https://eliotkersgaard.wordpress.com, MyraMakes

Research Interest: 

Research Project: Understanding the energetics of solar flares in the soft X-rays

Current Institution: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)

Websites: