May 2011: SED Machine Awarded NSF Grant for $675 K, the team is very excited!
I am a Postdoctoral scholar in the Caltech Astronomy department. From September 2008 to today my primary responsibility is to the hands on development and implementation of the MOSFIRE ( updated Dec 18th 2010) spectrograph. I serve two roles as an astronomer.
First, I'm an instrumentalist. Aside from my MOSFIRE responsibilities, I am in the process of designing a new low resolution spectrograph called the SED Machine for 1 - 4 m telescopes (hopefully for the Palomar 60").
Second, I'm an observer, I work on the DEEP2 and AEGIS surveys. Using data from these surveys, I studied the evolution of the ionized interstellar medium of early type galaxies from z ~ 0.1 to 1. In the future, I plan to be more involved in the science and instrumentation for transient surveys.
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My research interests include:
- Panchromatic SEDs of the AEGIS field. I wrote a tool to interactively explore their SEDs.
- Producing systematically similar visual morphologies in SDSS and AEGIS galaxies.
- I am a former member of the Automated Planet Finder team at Lick Observatory.
- Small and highly targeted (cheap) instrumentation. I maintain a list of interesting instruments that warrant further study.
- Astrophotonics
- Improving my efficiency through organization.
Random pages that need organization:
Past Work Experience
- Grad student at UCO/Lick.
- I was an engineer for about one and half years at the Jet Propulsion Labs Optical Communication Group.
- In 1999 David Rust at the JHU/Applied Physics Lab, PI of the Flare Genesis project, shipped me to the Antarctic.
- I was a summer student at the Brookhaven National Lab for the ARM Data Center.
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