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Dr Niranjan Thatte is the PI of the SWIFT project. He has extensive
experience in the field of integral field spectroscopy and has worked
on numerous IFU projects; most recently SPIFFI.
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Dr Matthias Tecza is responsible for the design and development
of the entire instrument optics, including the image slicer for
SWIFT. He also takes on the role as system engineer and will play
a major role during the assembly, testing, integration, and
commissioning phase of the project. Matthias has acquired a lot of
experience with integral field spectrographs and developed a new
type of image slicer for his doctorate. He was reponsible for the
design and development of SPIFFI.
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Dr Fraser Clarke is a postdoctoral fellow in the SWIFT team. Fraser got his
PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge in 2002. His thesis
focused on observational studies of brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets.
Fraser moved to a postdoctoral position with ESO at Paranal. He came to
Oxford in April 2004 bringing with him experience of instrument operations at
large telescopes, data reduction and analysis. Fraser is the project manager.
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Tim Goodsall is a PPARC funded postgraduate research student working with the
SWIFT project. Tim is British and began his DPhil in October 2004. He is
supervised by N Thatte. His laughable web-design skills are responsible for
this site.
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Lisa Fogarty is a marie curie excellence grant funded
postgraduate research student working with the swift project. Lisa is
irish and began her DPhil in October 2006. She is supervised by
Niranjan Thatte. |
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Graeme Salter is a STFC funded postgraduate research student
who started on the SWIFT project on October 2007. He is supervised
by Niranjan Thatte. He has had a major role in the assembly of SWIFT. |
