DeRoo Research Group

Prof. DeRoo awarded a NASA APRA grant for the study of curved X-ray gratings.

Cecilia Fasano receives a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award funding her research in the fabrication and testing of astronomical gratings.

Jeff Leiberton wins a Van Allen Research Grant to study supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

In an article published in the March 2021 Iowa Magazine, the DeRoo Group was noted as one of several researchers using artificial intelligence to drive discovery. The University of Iowa team is teaching computers to categorize celestial objects on their own, then flag for further examination the phenomena that don't fit into neat categories.

Dustin Swarm was named an Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) Graduate Research Fellow for 2019 - 2020

Jared Termini has guest-authored an article for the Astrobites blog, the astro-ph "Reader's Digest."

Jared Termini received an Iowa Space Grant Consortium's Undergraduate Research Fellowship. His fellowship project will characterize groove patterning accuracy of electron-beam lithography, a highly customizable lithography technique which rasters a beam of accelerated electrons across resist to form a pattern.

Prof. DeRoo recently reported the results of testing a prototype X-ray reflection grating at the PANTER X-ray Test Facility in Garching, Germany.

Prof. DeRoo and graduate student Dustin Swarm presented work at the 2019 SPIE Optics & Photonics Conference.

Congratulations to Mr. Nathan Bishop, Dr. Julian Walker, and Prof. Casey DeRoo on their recent publication in the Journal for Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS)! The paper covers a study performed to control the optical figure of a thin (0.4 mm), adjustable X-ray mirror.