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Matthew Leung

Center for Astrophysics

PhD Student

Matthew Leung

matthew.leung@cfa.harvard.edu

About

Matthew Leung is a PhD student at Harvard University. His research interests include astronomical instrumentation, specifically UVOIR spectroscopy and adaptive optics, and the applications of AI. He has worked on G-CLEF, the first light instrument for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), and also on DMD-based multi-object spectroscopy.

BASc in Engineering Science (Engineering Physics Specialization, Minor in Artificial Intelligence Engineering), University of Toronto

Telescopes and Instruments

Giant Magellan Telescope

Is Earth unique, or are there other planets with life in the Milky Way? To answer this question and many others, astronomers need larger and more sensitive observatories than anything we currently have. For that reason, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian is collaborating with a number of other institutions around the world to create the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), currently under construction in Chile. The GMT will consist of seven large mirrors acting in concert as one giant telescope 80 feet across. That large size provides an unprecedented view of the sky and the ability to detect the chemical composition of exoplanet atmospheres. Like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the GMT will be a powerful tool across the field of astronomy, providing insights into the formation of planets, the structure of galaxies, and the evolution of the universe itself.

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