Charlotte E Guthery, Ph.D.

Dr. Charlotte E. Guthery is an Adaptive Optics Scientist at W. M. Keck Observatory. She began work as a Heising Simons Postdoctoral Fellow after completing her PhD in Optical Sciences in 2022. During her post-doctoral fellowship, she led the development of high contrast AO tools for observations. She continues to play a lead role in high contrast development, while working on maintaining and improving the Keck Observatory AO facilities.

Charlotte has extensive experience with adaptive optics development and design, high contrast imaging, and telescope operational software control. She continuously collaborates with research groups at NASA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center), University of California (Santa Cruz, Los Angelos, Santa Barbara, and Berkley), California Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, University of Hawaii (Manoa and Hilo), and Mauna Kea Observatories (Subaru Telescope and Gemini Telescope). Charlotte is a point of contact for Habitable Worlds Observatories collaboration on the Keck Telescopes.

Committee Appointments

Adaptive Optics Working Group, W. M. Keck Observatory, 2024-present

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee, W. M. Keck Observatory, 2022-2024

Akamai Selection Committee, University of California - Santa Cruz, 2024

Science Organizing Committee, AO4ELT7, 2022

Women in Optics, University of Arizona, 2019-2022

Awards

2024, NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) - $1.43M

2024, NSF Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) - $388k

2022, Heising Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship - $240k

2020, NASA Strategic University Research Program (SURP) - $100k

2017, SPIE Graduate Student Endowed Scholarship in Optical Sciences - $20k