Dimitri Mawet

Dimitri Mawet is a professor of astronomy with 25 years of experience in developing advanced technologies and specialized instrumentation for high-contrast imaging and the spectroscopic characterization of exoplanets. His work spans coronagraphy, wavefront control, nulling interferometry, spectroscopy, and polarimetry.

Professor Dimitri leads extensive science campaigns, primarily utilizing the W.M. Keck Observatory's 10-meter telescopes. He manages a group of approximately 10 students and postdocs and mentors several undergraduate students as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Exoplanet Technology Laboratory and the High Contrast Spectroscopy Testbed for Segmented Telescopes (HCST) at Caltech. The lab is primarily focused on developing technologies for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) as well as future ground-based instrumentation.

Additionally, he is the PI for several key instruments at the Keck Observatory, including the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), HISPEC (currently in preliminary design), and MODHIS, a planned first-light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope.