Our Team
Faculty, Staff, & PostDocs htfjj
Randy McEntaffer (he/him/his)
Professor, Head of Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
James Tutt (he/him/his)
Associate Research Professor

Fabien Grisé
Associate Research Professor

Bridget O'Meara
Research Engineer
Jake McCoy (he/him/his)
Assistant Research Professor
Ross McCurdy (he/him/his)
PostDoc
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Group Alumni

Sarah Hawks - 2020
Optical Engineer at Northrop Grumman

Sara Walmach - 2019
Junior Systems Engineer/Flight Dynamics Analyst at A.I. Solutions for the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 spacecraft operated at NASA Goddard

Ted Schultz - 2019
R&D Engineer in the Intelligence and Space Research Division – Space Instrument Realization subgroup at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Brendan Sweeny - 2019
Scientist at NAVSEA

Dan Yastishock - 2018
NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command)

Steven Bell - 2018
IT Security Professional

Tyler Steiner - 2017
Grad School – Nuclear Engineering – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Ross Tedesco - 2017
Student at Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge completing a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration

Thomas Rogers (Iowa) - 2016
Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace

Hannah Marlowe (Iowa) - 2016
Big Data/Data Science Consultant at Amazon Web Services

Tom Peterson (Iowa) - 2016
Graduate Student at the University of Minnesota

Shaun (Iowa)

Casey DeRoo (Iowa) - 2016
Assistant Professor at University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Bailey Myers - 2020
Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin

Joseph Weston - 2020
Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space

Matthew Gebhart - 2020
Graduate Student at the University of Connecticut
Adam Stone - 2021
GeoScience Masters Program at Penn State

Juan C. Rojas González - 2021
Optical Engineer at NASA Goddard
Ningxiao Zhang - 2021
Systems Engineer at GPR (Ground Positioning Radar).
Drew Miles - 2021
Caltech Postdoc
Nestor Pelaez - 2022
Design Engineer at Boeing

Natalie Zinski - 2022
Benjamin Donovan - 2022
Northrup Grumman

Chris Hillman - 2022
Software Design Engineer for ASML

Keir Hunter (he/him/his)
Software Engineer for United Launch Alliance
Cole Armstrong (He/Him/His)
Graduate Student at University of Iowa
Vincent A. Smedile
Ph.D. Student at The Ohio State University
Kathrine Brooks (She/Her/Hers)
Johns Hopkins Advanced Physics Lab
Jessica Mondoskin
Graduate Student at the University of Iowa

Gianna D. Gagliardi (she/her/hers)
Engineering Leadership and Development Program with Xylem
Shiv Patel
Software Developer at TechKnowServ
