Our Team

Faculty & Staff

Professor, Head of Astronomy

Randy McEntaffer (he/him/his)

Professor, Head of Astronomy & Astrophysics Department

James Tutt (he/him/his)

Associate Research Professor
Associate Research Professor

Fabien Grisé

Associate Research Professor
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Bridget O'Meara

R&D Engineer
Post Doc

Jake McCoy

Post Doc

Graduate Students

Ross McCurdy (he/him/his)

Ross McCurdy (he/him/his)

Taylor Wood

Taylor Wood

Undergraduate Students

Gianna D. Gagliardi (she/her/hers)

Gianna D. Gagliardi (she/her/hers)

Shruti Natal

Shruti Natal

Kiara Cornell

Kiara Cornell

Shiv Patel

Shiv Patel

Cooper Aker (He/Him/His)

Cooper Aker (He/Him/His)

Group Alumni

Optical Engineer at Northrop Grumman

Sarah Hawks - 2020

Optical Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Junior Systems Engineer/Flight Dynamics Analyst at A.I. Solutions for the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 spacecraft operated at NASA Goddard

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
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Ted Schultz - 2019

R&D Engineer in the Intelligence and Space Research Division – Space Instrument Realization subgroup at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scientist at NAVSEA

Brendan Sweeny - 2019

Scientist at NAVSEA
NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command)

Dan Yastishock - 2018

NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command)
IT Security Professional

Steven Bell - 2018

IT Security Professional
Grad School - Nuclear Engineering - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tyler Steiner - 2017

Grad School – Nuclear Engineering – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Student at Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge completing a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration

Ross Tedesco - 2017

Student at Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge completing a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration
Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace

Thomas Rogers (Iowa) - 2016

Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace
Big Data/Data Science Consultant at Amazon Web Services

Hannah Marlowe (Iowa) - 2016

Big Data/Data Science Consultant at Amazon Web Services
Graduate Student at the University of Minnesota

Tom Peterson (Iowa) - 2016

Graduate Student at the University of Minnesota
Shaun (Iowa)

Shaun (Iowa)

Assistant Professor at University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Casey DeRoo (Iowa) - 2016

Assistant Professor at University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin

Bailey Myers - 2020

Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space

Joseph Weston - 2020

Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space
Graduate Student at the University of Connecticut

Matthew Gebhart - 2020

Graduate Student at the University of Connecticut

Adam Stone - 2021

GeoScience Masters Program at Penn State
Optical Engineer at NASA Goddard

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

Natalie Zinski - 2022

Software Design Engineer for ASML

Chris Hillman - 2022

Software Design Engineer for ASML
Software Engineer for United Launch Alliance

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