KAPA Leadership Team

Role People
Principal Peter Wizinowich (WMKO)
Project Scientist Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley)
Science Legacy Council Lead Andrea Ghez (UCLA)
ISEE Programs Lead Lisa Hunter (UCSC, ISEE)
Dark Matter/Energy Science Leads Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
Galactic Center Science Leads Andrea Ghez (UCLA), Mark Morris (UCLA)
Galaxy Evolution Science Leads Shelley Wright (UCSD), Tucker Jones (UC Davis), Claire Max (UCSC)
Protoplanets Science Leads Michael Liu (UH IfA), Dimitri Mawet (Caltech)

Science Team Members

Science Tools Team

Matthew Freeman UC Berkeley Postdoc
Sean Terry UC Berkeley Postdoc
Nils-Erik Rundquist UCSD

Dark Matter / Dark Energy

Chris Fassnact UC Davis Faculty
Anna Nierenberg UC Merced Faculty
Simon Birrer Stanford Postdoc/SUNY Faculty
Ioana Zelko UCLA postdoc
XiaoLong Du UCLA postdoc
Anowar Shajib NASA Hubble Fellow at UChicago
Daniel Gilman UToronto Postdoc
Veronica Dike UCLA graduate student
Shawn Knabel UCLA graduate student
Devon Williams UCLA graduate student

Galactic Centre

Tuan Do UCLA Faculty
Matt Hosek UCLA Postdoc
Devin Chu UCLA Postdoc
Abhimat Gautam UCLA Postdoc
Anna Ciurlo UCLA Postdoc

Galaxy Evolution

Sanchit Sabhlok UCSD grad
Keerthi Chandrasekaran UC Davis grad

Protoplanets

Jean-Baptiste Ruffio Caltech Postdoc
Mark Phillips IfA Postdoc

Technical Team Members

Sylvain Cetre Keck Controls
Jason Chin Keck Laser & RTC PM
Carlos Correia Consultant
Jacques Delorme Keck AO systems & Science Facility
Scott Lilley Keck Optomechanical
Jim Lyke Keck AO Operations
Sam Ragland Keck AO systems & Science Facility
Paul Richards Keck Controls
Avinash Surendran Keck AO systems & Science Facility
Marcos van Dam Consultant
Ed Wetherell Keck Controls
Sherry Yeh Keck AO Operations

Technical Collaborators

Antonin Boucher GMT
Corinne Boyer TMT
Richard Dekany Caltech
Simone Esposito Arcetri
Thierry Fusco LAM
Jean-Pierre Veran NRC