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Groningen, Netherlands

SAFARI, a far infrared imaging spectrometer, will be the prime instrument on board the SPICA infrared observatory satellite. I have built up and optimized the SAFARI Detector Optical Test Facility, a world-leading ultra-low noise optical testbed which will be used to characterize the SAFARI focal plane assembly at millikelvin temperatures. I have defined.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

CLOVER was an experiment to measure the B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the aim of detecting primordial gravitational waves. I completed the testing of the full set of CLOVER detector modules, documented our team's technical achievements, and published the test results to close out the CLOVER project.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I took the lead in developing, testing, and optimising superconducting microstrip-coupled transition edge sensor (TES) detectors for CLOVER, including the design and commissioning of a millikelvin cryo-cooler test facility, which I used for characterising the electrical and optical properties of the detector arrays. I planned and coordinated all of the.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

SCUBA-2 is a highly successful large-format submillimeter camera using TES bolometers operating on the James Clerk Maxwell telescope in Hawaii. I defined and led the SCUBA-2 sub-array test program and the cryostat integration and test program and ensured that the instrument design complied with the functional and performance requirements. I created an.

Sagamihara, Japan

The X-Ray Spectrometer (XRS) was a 32-element array of X-ray microcalorimeters for the Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite ASTRO-E. I participated in calibration and functional testing of the XRS instrument all the way from its delivery to ISAS through integration into the satellite to launch. This involved intensive calibration campaigns at ISAS and.

I worked as calibration scientist for XRS in the X-ray Astrophysics Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where I participated in planning, execution, and analysis of the XRS ground calibration. This included construction and operation of ground calibration facilities with radioactive and electron-impact X-ray sources; crystal and grating X-ray.

I carried out my dissertation research in the X-ray Astrophysics Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where I developed magnetic-penetration-thermometer microcalorimeters for X-ray astronomy and studied accretion processes in high-mass X-ray binaries with EXOSAT, BBXRT, ASCA, and RXTE.

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