Post-doctoral fellows

• Charlotte Bond, Wave-front sensing and reconstruction
• Olivier Martin, PSF reconstruction
• Yoshito Ono, Advanced tomography concepts
• Mikhail Konnik, Control of tomographic AO systems

Internships (supervision and co-supervision)

• Joel Teixeira, Large-scale wave-front reconstruction for exo-planetary Astronomical Adaptive Optics systems, PEEC, 04/2013-09/2013
• Olivier Herscovici, Super-sensitive wave-front sensing with the pyramid sensor,  internacional internship Institut Supérieur de l'Aéonautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse, France, 09/2013-11/2013
• Marisa Reis, Reconstrução tomográfica de frente-de-onda em sistemas de óptica adaptativa para astronomia, PEEC, 04/2013-09/2013
• Allen Waddle, Highly parallelizable tomographic algorithms using graphical processing units, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, UVic BSc programme, Jul-Dec. 2011
• Jeffrey Goodwill, The multi-conjugate adaptive-optics bench, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, UVic BSc programme, May-Sep. 2011
• Craig Irvin, Tracking sodium-layer changes in laser guide star adaptive optics, UVic BSc programme, Sep-Feb 2011

PhD

• Masen Lamb, Calibration of Adaptive Optics systems with Phase-Diversity Algorithms, Exchange PhD student (4 months) MITACS awardee (later Post-doc at Dunlap Institute) >>
• Kate Jackson, Tomographic wave-front reconstruction for Multi-object adaptive-optics. Application to Raven@Subaru”, University Victoria, Jan 2010- Aug. 2014 (later Post-doc at JPL) >>
  

MSc

• Joel Teixeira, Real-time reconstruction in the spatial frequency domain”, Univ. of Porto , 2013- Sept 2014 (later PhD at ONERA) >>

• PhD Nuno Gomes, Quality assessment of interferometric restored images, Univ Porto (2016)
• PhD  Jackson, Tomographic wave-front reconstruction for Multi-object adaptive-optics. Application to Raven@Subaru”, University Victoria, (2014)
• MSc Joel Teixeira, Real-time reconstruction in the spatial frequency domain”, Master of Mathematics Engineering, Univ. Porto (2014) >>
• Laurie Pham, Optimizing the Optical Calibration Performance of a Multi-Object Adaptive Optics Instrument, Master of Applied Science, Univ. Victoria (2013) >>

Space Guardians

Improving Astronomy Literacy of children at pre-school education to raise their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

https://spaceguardians.eu/

ESERO Portugal >>

Action: O espaço vai à escola (Space gets into the classroom) >>

Presentation of short films, talk: "The spectacles of the telescopes?"

Superphoton et je jeu de l'OA, Paris 2008

6-minute documentary on the principle of astronomical adaptive optics and coronography for the detection of extra-solar planets.

Prizes

• Doc'Up Coup de coeur