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Casey DeRoo

Assistant Professor

Research interests include X-ray astronomy; X-ray telescopes & instrumentation; optical design; machine learning for astronomy.

Graduate Research Assistant; FINESST Recipient

Cecilia fabricates and measures X-ray/UV gratings for use in space-based astronomical instruments.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Examining the X-ray spectra of supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Clouds.

Graduate Research Assistant

Kristie studies X-ray spectra of binary stellar systems.

Graduate Research Assistant

Current research interests include performance optimization of raytracing code, and high performance cluster computing.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Integral in setting and operating hardware in the DeRoo lab as well as conducting/analyzing interferometric measurements of gratings.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Watkins undergraduate research focuses on machine learning to identify outliers in the Chandra Source Catalog v2.0.