Alex Higley - About Me

I am a third-year graduate student working on the pathfinder flight of the Off-Plane Grating Rocket Experiment (OGRE) which is a three-component spectrometer for X-ray astronomy. I am currently helping lead many of the efforts for this campaign, including the characterization of X-ray mirrors and gratings, alignment of the optics, ray-tracing, and data analysis. In my free time I like kayaking, swimming, hiking, reading, writing, knitting and art.