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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Matthias Tecza

HARMONI Instrument Scientist

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Instrumentation

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Astronomical instrumentation
  • Exoplanet atmospheres
  • Exoplanets and Stellar Physics
  • Extremely Large Telescope
matthias.tecza@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73364
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 361G
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I am a staff researcher in the optical/near-IR instrumentation group at the Astrophysics department. I am designing and constructing astronomical instruments for large telescopes. Currently I spend most of my time working as instrument scientist for the HARMONI integral field spectrograph, one of the first light instruments for the future 39m European Extremely Large Telescope. I am also working on another instrument is ELT-PCS — the planetary camera and spectrograph for the ELT. We are conducting research and development into instrument technology that allows us to achieve very high direct-imaging contrast in order to characterise earth-like planets around sun-like stars.

In the past I was heavily involved in the design and construcion of the SWIFT spectrograph at the 5m Hale telescope which we recently refurbished with a new 16mas spaxel scale. Before that I was working on the design of the KMOS spectrograph modules, and prior to that I designed the SPIFFI spectrometers, which was part of the SINFONI instrument on the ESO VLT, soon be be re-commissioned as the SPIFFIER spectrometer as part of the ERIS instrument.

Research interests

Exoplanets
Instrumentation

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