Team Members
Project Teams and Research Group Members
I have been fortunate to work with many extraordinary individuals on satellite missions, technology development projects and science investigations. This is by no means an exhaustive list, as this webpage would be very long, but lists a few major project teams and recent postdoc, grad and undergrad students.
The background is a video of a solar flare extreme ultraviolet emission from NASA SDO AIA highly processed by Prof. Miloslav Druckmüller (http://www.zam.fme.vutbr.cz/~druck/).
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MinXSS-1, MinXSS-2, and DAXSS Team has worked to create CubeSats to measure the Solar soft X-ray spectra.
SSAXI SmallSat
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SSAXI is an astrophysics and solar physics mission under development to measure the quiescent soft X-ray flux and tiny transients.
SEEJ SmallSat
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SEEJ is a proposed astrophysics mission to measure the atmosphereic properties of hot Jupiters and the variability of their host stars using soft X-ray spectral transits.
Hinode X-ray Telescope
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Hinode XRT is a soft X-ray imaging telescope that is a consortium between SAO, JAXA, NASA MSFC, MSU, and more.
Crisel Suarez
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: Vanderbilt University
Websites: LinkedIn
Carleano Libretto
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
Rebecca FitzGerald
2020
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
Carson Geottlicher
2019 - Present
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
Sierra Garza
2018
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:
Christian Carter
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
Nicholas Renninger
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
Liam O'Connor
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
Eliot Kersgaard
Research Interest: Myra Makes
Research Project: Measurement of thin film UV optical constants.
Current Institution: Myra Makes
Websites: LinkedIn, https://eliotkersgaard.wordpress.com, MyraMakes
Caroline Leaman
2016
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: