Andrew Rakich Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Paekakariki, New Zealand

Various skills in optics, optical design, tolerancing, manufacturing, alignment etc. available here. Demonstrable history of high-end optical design innovation, deep grasp of underlying theory and strong track record of delivered results.

Wellington

Pasadena

Telescope Optics Scientist on GMTO. GMT will most likely be one of the first new generation ELT's on sky. A massively exciting and challenging project.

Munich Area, Germany

Interesting, but culturally challenging.

I was primarily responsible for seeing-limited optical image quality for the telescope, and spent most of my time battling various technical issues (for exampe the highly assymetric structure) to deliver a stable telescope. LBT has been delivering Strehl Ratios of up to 0.93 in H-band, and I can take some of the credit for that I suppose (of course the.

Canberra, Australia

Was sole responsible for design and contract management for the fabrication of the major optical components and optical systems. Project managed the EOS contribution to the fabrication of the FMOS prime focus corrector (as subcontractors to AAO we provided the optical system), did a bit of sales and marketing (obtained then project managed the Thai.