Dimitri Mawet
Dimitri Mawet
Dimitri Mawet graduated in Engineering Physics from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 2002, received his Master's Degree in Sciences in 2004, and obtained a Ph.D. in Sciences in 2006, also from the University of Liège. Dr. Mawet was a Marie Curie fellow at the Paris-Meudon Observatory (France) in 2002, and at the Institut of Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay (France) in 2003. He received postdoctoral training as a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory – California Institute of Technology in 2007, and then became JPL Research Scientist in 2009. Dr. Mawet joined the European Southern Observatory (ESO) as an astronomer and instrument scientist at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory (Chile) in 2011. After completing the commissioning and science verification of the VLT exoplanet finder SPHERE in 2014, Dr. Mawet joined the California Institute of Technology as Associate Professor of Astronomy in 2015, and became Professor of Astronomy in 2019. He also holds a joint appointment at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as JPL Senior Research Scientist since 2015. Dr. Mawet invented the Vector Vortex Coronagraph, an instrument to image exoplanets, and (co-)authored more than 500 scientific publications. Dr. Mawet and his new Exoplanet Technology Lab and Group are pioneering a new technique called High Dispersion Coronagraphy to detect and spectroscopically characterize exoplanets using the Keck telescopes, paving the way to Exo-Earth remote sensing with the Thirty Meter Telescope and future NASA flagship space-based missions. Dr Mawet's research has been supported by grants from the Heising Simons Foundation, the Mt Cuba Foundation, the McCormick Foundation, the NSF and NASA.
Publications
- Hsu, Chih-Chun;Wang 王, Jason J. 劲飞 et al. (2024) PDS 70b Shows Stellar-like Carbon-to-oxygen RatioAstrophysical Journal Letters
- Hon, Marc;Huber, Daniel et al. (2024) Asteroseismology of the Nearby K Dwarf σ Draconis Using the Keck Planet Finder and TESSAstrophysical Journal
- Horstman, Katelyn;Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste et al. (2024) RV Measurements of Directly Imaged Brown Dwarf GQ Lup B to Search for ExosatellitesAstronomical Journal
- Xuan, Jerry W.;Hsu, Chih-Chun et al. (2024) Are These Planets or Brown Dwarfs? Broadly Solar Compositions from High-resolution Atmospheric Retrievals of ∼10–30 M_(Jup) CompanionsAstrophysical Journal
- Kuzuhara, Masayuki;Fukui, Akihiko et al. (2024) Gliese 12 b: A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 pc Ideal for Atmospheric Transmission SpectroscopyAstrophysical Journal Letters
- Salama, Maïssa;Guthery, Charlotte et al. (2024) Keck Primary Mirror Closed-loop Segment Control Using a Vector-Zernike Wavefront SensorAstrophysical Journal
- Do Ó, Clarissa R.;Sappey, Ben et al. (2024) Orbital and Atmospheric Characterization of the 1RXS J034231.8+121622 System using High-resolution Spectroscopy Confirms that the Companion is a Low-mass StarAstronomical Journal
- Prasow-Émond, M.;Hlavacek-Larrondo, J. et al. (2024) The First High-contrast Images of Near High-mass X-Ray Binaries with Keck/NIRC2Astrophysical Journal
- Gatkine, Pradip;Sercel, Greg et al. (2024) Efficient ultra-broadband low-resolution astrophotonic spectrographsOptics Express
- Petrus, Simon;Whiteford, Niall et al. (2024) The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. V. Do Self-consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase with VHS 1256–1257 bAstrophysical Journal Letters
Instructor: Hallinan
Instructor: Fuller
Instructor: Mawet
Instructors: (a) Howard, Mawet, (b) Hallinan
Instructor: Fuller
Instructor: (a) Kasliwal/Fuller (b) Kasliwal/Hallinan
Instructors: Howard, Mawet
Instructor: Howard