Lisa Poyneer is an Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she develops advanced adaptive optics systems for high-power laser facilities and astronomical applications. Poyneer earned both her undergraduate and doctoral degrees from MIT, completing her Ph.D. in computer science there, with her fellowship beginning in 1999. Her research has focused on wavefront sensing and control algorithms for adaptive optics—the technology that corrects for atmospheric distortion in telescopes and optical aberrations in laser systems. Her work has been applied to the PALM-3000 adaptive optics system at Palomar Observatory and to laser systems at the National Ignition Facility.
Lisa Poyneer
1999 HERTZ FELLOW
MAKING HISTORY
EDUCATION
Graduate Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computer Science
Undergraduate Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SELECTED AWARDS
1999, Rhodes Scholar, Rhodes Trust
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