David Buscher Astrophysics Cavendish Laboratories Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 0HE United Kingdom Phone +44 1223 337302 Fax +44 1223 354599 Email dfb@mrao.cam.ac.uk

I am a lecturer in the astrophysics group in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. I work on the COAST optical/infrared interferometer in Cambridge and the MRO interferometer in New Mexico. I am also a fellow at Pembroke College, teaching physics.

The picture above is my face reflected in the deformable mirror of the ELECTRA adaptive optics system which I worked on in my previous job at Durham University. This mirror has 76 individually steerable elements whose positions are updated 1000 times a second to correct in real time for atmospheric distortions to astronomical images.

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