Associate Professor and Principal Investigator
Aerospace Engineering & Physics
BIO
Dr. Guzmán is an Associate Professor and experimental physicist with the departments of Aerospace Engineering and Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University (TAMU). His research focuses on the development of novel optomechanical inertial sensors, precision laser interferometry, and optical technologies for ground and space applications in gravitational-wave astrophysics, geosciences, navigation, and precision metrology. He is the PI of the TAMU groups within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the LISA Consortium. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany, he was awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with the Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory. Later, he became a Senior Research Associate at the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST and University of Maryland) and Research Group Leader at the German Space Agency (DLR) in collaboration with the University of Bremen.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Gravitational Wave Observatories: LIGO and LISA
- Optomechanical inertial sensing technologies: accelerometry, force sensing and navigation
- Optical metrology, precision measurements, and space technologies
- Optical, optomechanical and atom-interferometric sensing systems for applications in geophysics: gravimetry, gravity gradiometry and seismometry
EXPERIENCE
- Research Physicist, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bremen, Germany, 2016-2018
- Senior Research Associate, NIST and Joint Quantum Institute (UMD), 2012-2016
- LISA Pathfinder Optical Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany, 2011-2012
- NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2009-2011
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Physics, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics & Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2009
- M.S. in Engineering Physics, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 2005
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001
PATENTS & APPLICATIONS
- F. Guzmán et al, Optomechanical inertial reference for atom interferometers, UA 19-126, Feb. 15, 2019.
- F. Guzmán et al, Beschleunigungsmesssystem (acceleration measurement system), German Patent No. 102018200052.2, Jan 3, 2018.
- F. Guzmán et al, Optomechanical laser for dynamic measurement, Pub. No. US 2017/0373462 A1, Pub. Date Dec. 28, 2017.
- F. Guzmán et al, Optomechanical gravimeter, Pub. No. US 2017/0371065 A1, Pub. Date Dec. 28, 2017.
- G.A. Shaw, F. Guzmán et al, Optomechanical reference, NIST invention docket 17-016US1, Dec. 21, 2017.
Dr. Jose Sanjuan Munoz
Research Associate Professor
BIO
Dr. Sanjuan is a Research Associate Professor and an electrical engineer with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University (A&M). He has over 15 years of experience in space missions for gravity field and gravitational wave measurements, optical metrology, laser frequency stabilization systems and optical clocks for global navigation satellite systems and tests of fundamental physics in space. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain. Subsequently, he joined the LISA group at the Department of Physics at the University of Florida as post-doc. Later, he led the team at the German Space Agency (DLR) to develop the optical ground support equipment for the laser ranging interferometer (LRI) on GRACE Follow-On. In 2019, he returned to the University of Florida to work on the LISA telescope testing at the Department of Physics, and on gravitational reference sensors at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Gravitational Wave Observatories
- Gravity field recovery missions
- Laser frequency stabilization and frequency references
- Optical metrology and laser interferometry
- Low-noise electronics and signal processing
- Thermal systems
EXPERIENCE
- Research scientist, Institute of Quantum Technologies, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Ulm, Germany, 2021-2022
- Assistant scientist, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2019-2021
- Research scientist, Institute of Space Systems, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bremen, Germany, 2012-2019
- Post-doc, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2009-2012
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, 2009
- M.S. and B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, 2004