Buffo's work focuses on developing adjustable X-ray optics for future applications in X-ray astrophysics.

Colin Packard’s research interests center primarily around instrumentation and hardware development, photometry, and observational astronomy. He is currently working with Dr. Philip Kaaret, Dr. Casey DeRoo, and Dr. Jun Wang on both X-ray detection with CMOS sensors, and the development and testing of sensor hardware for an air or space based platform for use in measuring atmospheric pollutants via Earth observing-photometry.

Jacob studies X-ray instrumentation with applications for high energy astronomy. Motivated by the NICER telescope launched in 2017 and the following SEXTANT demonstration, Jacob is primarily interested in the characterization of pulsar emission and optimization of X-ray telescopes for pulsar observation. This work currently involves fabrication of slumped glass mirror substrates, electron-beam deposition of metallic reflective coatings, and optical metrology. Other work involves phase-resolved spectral analysis.