JOSÉ MANUEL GONZÁLEZ CAVA
AUTOMATION AND CONTROL ENGINEER
José Manuel obtained his Bachelor degree in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering, and his Master degree in Industrial Engineer, at Universidad de La Laguna. In 2020 he finished his PhD in Automatic Control Engineering. His PhD research was devoted to closed-loop techniques for the automation of clinical variables in uncertain scenarios. In 2016 he received a Technological Development Grant to work in the application of closed-loop algorithms to the Gran Telescopio Canarias adaptive optics system. From 2016 to 2020 he worked at Universidad de La Laguna. He joined the EST team in 2020.
BRUNO FEMENÍA CASTELLÁ
ADAPTIVE OPTICS SPECIALIST
Bruno obtained his degree in Physics with Major in Astrophysics at University of La Laguna in 1993 and his PhD in Observational Cosmology at the IAC and University of La Laguna. After his PhD he moved into adaptive optics (AO) where he has been working ever since. He has worked in nighttime AO systems at the LBT, GTC and Keck telescopes. Bruno joined the EST team in 2020 to work within MICAL in the multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) breadboard from which important lessons will be learnt with direct implications in the design of the EST AO and MCAO systems.
MARTA BELÍO ASÍN
OPTICAL ENGINEER
Marta has a degree in Optics and Optometry from the University of Zaragoza and a MSc in Optical and Imaging Technologies from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she gained skills within the field of optical engineering. Specialised in optical design, she did her Master's thesis last year on the development of an instrument which was to be integrated in a rover, a project for which she designed and analysed a camera for exploration purposes on Mars. Marta joined the EST team this year to work as an optical engineer.
SERGIO BONAQUE GONZÁLEZ
OPTICAL ENGINEER
Sergio is an optical engineer who obtained a PhD in experimental physics at the University of La Laguna and four Master’s degrees in astrophysics, basic research, statistics, and ophthalmic technologies. He has extensive experience in the private sector as an optical engineer and researcher. His achievements include significant contributions to the development of a new technology for wavefront sensing and a real-time light-field camera, the invention of a temporal variant of curvature sensors, and the design of a novel method to correct vision by amplitude optimisation.
