Current Group Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

Changgon Kim (2026 - )
MIRAC-5 IFU upgrade and TEMPO optical design
(in collaboration with LOFT)

Graduate Students

Debstuti Biswas

Undergraduates

Osmar Abrego (2026 - )
NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Researcher

Naomi Fitts (2026 - )
TIMESTEP Intern

Nikoli “Niko” Cooper (2026 - )
“Designing a Flat-field Source for a Mid-IR Telescope”

Rebekah Boisvert (2025 - )
NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Researcher
Reducing and Analyzing Mid-IR Observations of Brown Dwarfs

Former Group Members

Ruben Huerta (2025 - 2026) now at Raytheon
“Assessing the Seek Thermal Mosaic Core for Ground-Based Astronomy”

Ella Butler (Summer 2025) now Masters Student in Optical Sciences at Arizona
“Using Atmospheric Models for the TEMPO Exposure Time Calculator”

Animesh Garg (2023 - 2025)
“Jupiter as an Exoplanet seen by HST”