Daniel Jaffe  

Professor

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Research Interests

Infrared spectroscopy of protostars and star forming clouds; submillimeter observations of interstellar gas, star formation regions, and protostars; physics of the dense interstellar medium; instrumentation for infrared spectroscopy.

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, Spitzer Legacy Project: c2d, HII Regions & Planetary Nebulae, Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, GMTNIRS, EXES: mid-IR spectrograph

Hanshin Lee  

Research Associate

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Research Interests

Astronomical instrumentation; focal-plane wide-field wavefront sensing; active alignment control of imaging systems; adaptive image compensation/recovery; phase-retrieval.

Group Areas

Instrumentation, HETDEX: Dark Energy Experiment, GMTNIRS

Michael Gully-Santiago  

Graduate Student

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Research Interests

Discovery and characterization of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs; star and planet formation; infrared astronomical spectroscopy; innovative technologies for astronomical instrumentation; electron beam lithography; semiconductor processing; optical metrology

Group Areas

Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, GMTNIRS

Cynthia Brooks  

Research Engineer/Scientist Associate IV

Group Areas

Micromachined Silicon Diffractive Optics, GMTNIRS