Dr. Richard Dekany

Ph.D. Optical Sciences, University of Arizona (1994)

B.S., Honors, Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology (1989)

Department of Astronomy
MSC 11-24
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125-2400
(626) 395-6798
rgd@astro.caltech.edu

Email: rgd@astro.caltech.edu.

Head of Adaptive Optics (2000-2004), Caltech Optical Observatories

Principal Investigator, PALAO Facility Adaptive Optics System for Palomar 5.1m Telescope (2000)

California Extremely Large Telescope Steering Committee (2000-2003)

Associate Director for Instrumentation Development (2004-Present), Caltech Optical Observatories

Principal Investigator, PALAO Wavefront Sensor and RTC Upgrade (2003)

Principal Investigator, Four-guide-star Tomographic Wavefront Sensor Demonstrator (2007)

Project Manager, Double Spectrograph Red-side Camera (DBSP-R, 2010)

Principal Investigator, PALM-3000 Facility Adaptive Optics System for Palomar 5.1m Telescope (2011)

Project Manager, Palomar Transient Factory Camera (PTF, 2012)

Principal Investigator, SPRITE Antrarctic AO Observatory (Proposal, 2012)

Principal Investigator, Ten-milliarcsecond Visible-Light AO Camera (TMAS, 2013)

Principal Investigator, PULSE Rayeligh LGS AO (Proposal, 2014, 2015)

Co-Investigator and Project Manager, Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF, 2018)

Project Manager, Next Generation Palomar Spectrograph (NGPS, 2018-)

Caltech Optical Observatories Instrumentation Projects and Partnerships (2004-Present)

Palomar Observatory

Keck Observatory

TMT International Observatory

Subaru Observatory

Antarctic Projects

Flight Project Support

Other Projects

Non-COO Projects at COO Observatories (2004-Present)