People
Casey DeRoo
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Research interests include X-ray astronomy; X-ray telescopes & instrumentation; optical design; machine learning for astronomy.
Cecilia Fasano
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant; FINESST Recipient
Cecilia fabricates and measures X-ray/UV gratings for use in space-based astronomical instruments.
Jeff Leiberton
Title/Position
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Examining the X-ray spectra of supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Clouds.
Kristie Nault
Title/Position
Graduate Research Assistant
Kristie studies X-ray spectra of binary stellar systems.
Dustin Swarm
Title/Position
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Current research interests include machine learning, high-energy astrophysics, and raytracing for X-ray optics.
Jared Termini
Title/Position
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Integral in setting and operating hardware in the DeRoo lab as well as conducting/analyzing interferometric measurements of gratings.
Samantha Watkins
Title/Position
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Watkins undergraduate research focused on machine learning to identify outliers in the Chandra Source Catalog v2.0.