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Dr. Jean-Pierre Véran
AO Scientist, Adaptive Optics Team Leader
Jean-Pierre coordinates the effort for all the AO activities at NRC-HIA, and contributes to most of them. His research interests include AO systems modeling and design of advanced AO control algorithms as well as AO data / AO image processing such as PSF reconstruction and image deconvolution. Jean-Pierre was the Project Scientist for Gemini's Altair. Currently, he is co-PI for the GPI project and supports the NFIRAOS Preliminary Design Study. Jean-Pierre is also Adjunct Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Victoria.
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Glen Herriot
Systems Engineer
Glen plays a key role in many NRC-HIA AO-related activities. He is currently the TMT NFIRAOS Project Manager / Systems Engineer and was the Altair Project Manager / Systems Engineer. His research interests include system level design and analysis of AO systems, as well as design of advanced AO control algorithms, particularly for background optimization tasks.
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Dr. David Andersen
Astronomer and Instrument Scientist
Dave's research interests include AO system performance evaluation, AO system and sub-system design and science with integral field spectroscopy and AO. He has been studying the kinematic and photometric structure and evolution of galaxies. Dave was the NRC-HIA PI of the TMT IRMOS-MOAO feasibility study and currently supports the NFIRAOS Preliminary Design Study. He leads the AO Team R&D activities related to wide-field AO and has played a key role in the TMT WFOS GLAO, Gemini GLAO and CFHT ‘Imaka GLAO feasibility studies. Dave is also the PI of the VOLT experiment
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Dr. Christian Marois
Astronomer
Christian's research mainly focuses on high-contrast AO imaging and the search for exoplanets around nearby young stars. One of his main interests is in the detailed wavefront propagation simulations and performance estimates in extreme AO systems. He has developed advanced AO data observation/reduction techniques for planet imaging and characterization. Currently, Christian leads the GPI modeling effort at NRC-HIA and also supports the TMT NFIRAOS study. He leads the AO Team R&D activities related to high contrast imaging, including the design of PFI, a future instrument dedicated to finding exoplanets with TMT. |
The ATRG-V AO group maintains a strong relationship and collaboration with the University of Victoria AO Lab, L.A.C.I.R., led by Pr. Colin Bradley, who is developing an AO test bench to support AO research.
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