Olivier Guyon

Olivier Guyon
Guyon in 2012
Born	1975
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.

References

1. "Olivier Guyon". University of Arizona. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
2. "Olivier Guyon - MacArthur Foundation".
3. "Oliver Guyon".
4. "PANOPTES project".

External links

• Oliver Guyon website at the Subaru Telescope