Supervision

Post-doctoral fellows

1. Timothée Vène — PCS wavefront control strategy
2. Charlotte Bond — Wavefront sensing and reconstruction
3. Olivier Martin — PSF reconstruction
4. Yoshito Ono — Advanced tomography concepts
5. Mikhail Konnik — Control of tomographic AO systems

PhD students

1. Luís Silva Sousa — Event-based vision for real-time space object detection and tracking with deep learning · 2025–2028
2. Nuno Morujão (co-supervised with Paulo Garcia) — Applications of Adaptive Optics Telemetry for Long Baseline Interferometry · 2023–2027
3. Maxime Dumont (co-supervised with J.F. Sauvage and J. Cardoso) — Deep Learning pour le phasage de télescope segmenté · 2021–2024
4. Kate Jackson (co-supervised with Colin Bradley) — Dynamic Tomographic Algorithms for Multi-Object Adaptive Optics: increasing sky-coverage for Raven · 2011–2015

MSc students

1. Miguel Miranda Santos — Assessing Reinforcement Learning in XAO Control for PCS · Sep 2025–Jul 2026
2. Ana Margarida Freitas — Auto-tuned, data-driven predictive controller for satellite-to-ground Free Space Optics Communication Systems · Jan–Sep 2025
3. Ana Rita Oliveira — Dashboards for Space Missions Ground Segment · Jan–Jul 2025
4. José Chaves — Assessing the photometric and astrometric capabilities of the ELT METIS imager on the Centre of the Milky Way · Sep 2024–Jul 2025
5. Rafael Salgueiro — Near Infra-Red Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing · Sep 2023–Jul 2024. Later: PhD at LAM & Macquarie University
6. João Aveiro — Assessing the photometric and astrometric capabilities of the ELT METIS imager on the Centre of the Milky Way · Sep 2022–Sep 2023. Later: SW developer at Ethiack
7. Nuno Morujão — Adaptive Optics Telemetry: Estimation of turbulence parameters · Sep 2021–Oct 2022. Later: PhD at FEUP/CENTRA
8. Joel Teixeira — Real-time reconstruction in the spatial frequency domain · Sep 2013–Oct 2014. Funded by PHARAOH. Later: PhD at ONERA

Internships (supervision and co-supervision)

1. Christian Geyer — Adaptation of the AOT telemetry standard to Papyrus data · Jan–May 2024
2. François Leroux — Papyrus @ OHP error budget · Mar–Aug 2023
3. Yannick Abautret — Calibration of the pyramid modulation system on the LOOPS optical bench · Apr–Sep 2017
4. Mathews George — Interfaces with the LOOPS experiment · Jul–Aug 2016
5. Catarina Lourenço, Francisco Nascimento, Paulo Maia — Statistical analysis of post-processed on-sky Raven AO telemetry · Nov 2014–Jan 2015
6. Abel Nicolau — Parallelization of the average gradient in Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing · Nov 2014–Jan 2015
7. FEUP internship — Electricidade e Electromagnetismo · 2015
8. Joel Teixeira — Large-scale wave-front reconstruction for exo-planetary Astronomical Adaptive Optics systems · PEEC, 04/2013–09/2013
9. Olivier Herscovici — Super-sensitive wave-front sensing with the pyramid sensor · ISAE Toulouse, 09/2013–11/2013
10. Marisa Reis — Reconstrução tomográfica de frente-de-onda em sistemas de óptica adaptativa para astronomia · PEEC, 04/2013–09/2013
11. Allen Waddle — Highly parallelizable tomographic algorithms using graphical processing units · Herzberg / UVic BSc, Jul–Dec 2011
12. Jeffrey Goodwill — The multi-conjugate adaptive-optics bench · Herzberg / UVic BSc, May–Sep 2011

Masen Lamb — Calibration of Adaptive Optics systems with Phase-Diversity Algorithms. Exchange PhD student (4 months), MITACS awardee (later Post-doc at Dunlap Institute). →

• PhD Joana Torres — High-Performance Adaptive Optics Control in Strong Turbulence Scenarios for Free Space Optical Communications, IOGS
• PhD Léonard Prengere — Commande haute performance des systèmes d’optique adaptative classique, IOGS
• PhD Jesse Cranney — Predictive Correction of Frozen-Flow Atmospheric Turbulence in Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics, Univ. Newcastle
• PhD Nuno Gomes — Quality assessment of interferometric restored images, Univ. Porto (2016)
• PhD Jackson — Tomographic wavefront reconstruction for Multi-object AO. Application to Raven@Subaru, Univ. Victoria (2014)
• MSc Laurie Pham — Optimizing the Optical Calibration Performance of a Multi-Object Adaptive Optics Instrument, Univ. Victoria (2013) →

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