Olivier Guyon | |
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 Guyon in 2012 | |
| Born | 1975 (age 49–50) |
| Nationality | French |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Université Pierre et Marie Curie Ph. D. |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
Olivier Guyon (born 1975) is a French-American astronomer. He is an astronomer at the Steward Observatory of the college of science and professor in the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, [1] both of The University of Arizona. He is the SCExAO Project Scientist at the Subaru Telescope. Guyon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "Genius Grant" in 2012. [2]
Guyon designs telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation that aid in the search for exoplanets planets outside the Solar System. [3] Specifically, coronagraphs and extreme adaptive optics.
Guyon developed the PANOPTES project, [4] a citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope that can be used to detect transiting exoplanets.
