Kristina Davis

Research

I am currently a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow (NSF AAPF). Working with Ben Mazin's research group at the University of California Santa Barbara, I am working on control loop software to make MKID-detector based cameras work with extreme adaptive optics systems in order to image Earth-sized planets around other stars. I am also developing a new calibration method for adaptive optics systems, called HOPP. HOPP is a method for measuring the amplitude and phase response of a MKID camera to the changes in an AO system while in operation.