Felipe Guzman

Jack Lee Jewell Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences
Professor of Optical Sciences
Professor of Physics
Guzman

Meinel 737
Wyant College of Optical Sciences
The University of Arizona
1630 E. University Blvd.
P.O. Box 210094
Tucson, AZ 85721-0094

Classification: Joint Faculty

Education: 

  • Ph.D., physics, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics & Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2009
  • M.S., engineering physics, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 2005
  • B.S., electrical engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001

Research Interests: 

In the Laboratory of Space Systems and Optomechanics (LASSO) at University of Arizona, we focus on designing and developing inertial sensors with application in distinct fields such as gravitational-wave astronomy and space geodesy.

Our group research is centered in:

  • Novel optomechanical inertial sensing technologies.
  • Optical precision measurements.
  • System characterization and signal processing.

LASSO members are also part of international collaborations such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antena – LISA Consortium and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory – LIGO Scientific Collaboration, where we contribute to the characterization and development of ground and space-based observatories.

Honors and Awards: 

  • NASA Engineering Technical Achievement Award 2022 – co-recipient as member of the NASA LISA Telescope Team
  • Mercator Fellow (DFG Guest Professor) with the German Research Foundation (DFG – Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft), in the Collaborative Research Center 1464 (SFB – Soderforschungsbereich): Relativistic and quantum-based geodesy, January 2021 – December 2024.
  • Mercator Fellow (DFG Guest Professor) with the German Research Foundation (DFG – Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft), in the Collaborative Research Center 1128 (SFB – Soderforschungsbereich): Relativistic geodesy and gravimetry with quantum sensors, October 2014 – June 2019.
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory (Code 663), Maryland, USA, July 2009–July 2011.
  • Graduate Fellowship of the International Max Planck Research School on Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Hannover, Germany, April 2007–June 2009.