Our Team
Faculty & Staff
Randy McEntaffer (he/him/his)
Professor, Head of Astronomy & Astrophysics Department
James Tutt (he/him/his)
Associate Research Professor
Fabien Grisé
Associate Research Professor
Bridget O'Meara
R&D Engineer
Jake McCoy
Assistant Research Professor
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Gianna D. Gagliardi (she/her/hers)
Shruti Natal
Kiara Cornell
Group Alumni
Sarah Hawks - 2020
Optical Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Sara Walmach - 2019
Junior Systems Engineer/Flight Dynamics Analyst at A.I. Solutions for the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 spacecraft operated at NASA Goddard
Ted Schultz - 2019
R&D Engineer in the Intelligence and Space Research Division – Space Instrument Realization subgroup at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Brendan Sweeny - 2019
Scientist at NAVSEA
Dan Yastishock - 2018
NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command)
Steven Bell - 2018
IT Security Professional
Tyler Steiner - 2017
Grad School – Nuclear Engineering – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ross Tedesco - 2017
Student at Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge completing a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration
Thomas Rogers (Iowa) - 2016
Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace
Hannah Marlowe (Iowa) - 2016
Big Data/Data Science Consultant at Amazon Web Services
Tom Peterson (Iowa) - 2016
Graduate Student at the University of Minnesota
Shaun (Iowa)
Casey DeRoo (Iowa) - 2016
Assistant Professor at University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Bailey Myers - 2020
Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Joseph Weston - 2020
Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space
Matthew Gebhart - 2020
Graduate Student at the University of Connecticut
Adam Stone - 2021
GeoScience Masters Program at Penn State
Juan C. Rojas González - 2021
Optical Engineer at NASA Goddard
Ningxiao Zhang - 2021
Systems Engineer at GPR (Ground Positioning Radar).
Drew Miles - 2021
Caltech Postdoc
Nestor Pelaez - 2022
Design Engineer at Boeing
Natalie Zinski - 2022
Benjamin Donovan - 2022
Northrup Grumman
Chris Hillman - 2022
Software Design Engineer for ASML
Keir Hunter (he/him/his)
Software Engineer for United Launch Alliance
Cole Armstrong (He/Him/His)
Graduate Student at University of Iowa
Vincent A. Smedile
Ph.D. Student at The Ohio State University
Kathrine Brooks (She/Her/Hers)
Johns Hopkins Advanced Physics Lab
Jessica Mondoskin
Graduate Student at the University of Iowa
