Science & Technology Definition Team

STDT COMMUNITY CO-CHAIRS

Alexey Vikhlinin
Senior Astrophysicist
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Feryal Özel
Professor of Astronomy
University of Arizona

NASA STUDY SCIENTIST

Jessica Gaskin
Lynx Study Scientist
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

STDT MEMBERS

Steven Allen
Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Mark Bautz
Associate Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kavli Institute

W. Nielsen Brandt
Verne M. Willaman Professor, The Pennsylvania State University

Joel Bregman
Professor of Astronomy, University of Michigan

Megan Donahue
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University

Jessica Gaskin
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Zoltan Haiman
Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University

Ryan Hickox
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College

Tesla Jeltema
Assistant Professor of Physics & Biological Sciences, UC Santa Cruz

Juna Kollmeier
Astronomer, Carnegie Institution for Science

EX-OFFICIO OBSERVERS OF THE STDT

Terri Brandt
PCOS Program Office Chief Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Daniel Evans
Lynx Program Scientist
NASA Headquarters

INTERNATIONAL EX-OFFICIO OBSERVERS OF THE STDT

Peter Jonker
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) Appointee
SRON & Radboud University Nijmegen

Brian McNamara
Canadian Space Agency Appointee
University of Waterloo

Kirpal Nandra
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt  (DLR) Appointee
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

LYNX CONCEPT STUDY MANAGER

Karen Gelmis
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

DEPUTY LYNX STUDY SCIENTIST

Doug Swartz
Universities Space Research Association / NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Lynx Study Office

Jessica Gaskin
Study Office Lead
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Alexey Vikhlinin
Study Office Lead for SAO
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Lynx Science Support Office

Grant Tremblay
Lynx Science Study Office Lead
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

John ZuHone
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Francesca Civano
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Eric Mandel
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Instrument Working Group Co-Chairs

Mark Bautz
IWG Chair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Simon Bandler
Microcalorimeters
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Abe Falcone
High-Definition Imagers
Penn State University

Megan Eckart
Microcalorimeters
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Ralf Heilmann
Grating Spectrometers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ralph Kraft
High-Definition Imagers
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Randy McEntaffer
Grating Spectrometers
Penn State University

Instrument Working Group Members

Optics Working Group Co-Chairs

Mark Schattenburg
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research

Lester Cohen
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Optics Working Group Members

Optics Design Team Leads

Kiranmayee Kilaru
Universities Space Research Association / NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Giovanni Pareschi
INAF-Brera Astronomical Observatory

Paul Reid
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

William Zhang
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Lynx Science Working Groups

Cycles of Baryons in and out of Galaxies
Chairs: Joel Bregman, Juna Kolmeier, Andrey Kravstov

First Accretion Light in the Universe
Chairs: Niel Brandt, Piero Madau, Daniel Stern

Evolution of Structure and AGN populations
Chairs: Steve Allen, Ryan Hickox, Tesla Jeltema, Daniel Stern

Physics of High Density Matter, Compact Objects, and Accretion
Chairs: Feryal Özel, Frits Paerels, Chris Reynolds

Physics of Feedback
Chairs: Megan Donahue, Chris Reynolds

Stellar Lifecycles
Chairs: Laura Lopez, Rachel Osten, Dave Pooley, Andy Ptak

X-rays in the Multi-wavelength, Multi-Messenger Era
Chairs: Robert Petre, Randall Smith

Engineering Support Team

The Lynx Team is large and ever-growing.
Please email additions or corrections to grant.tremblay@cfa.harvard.edu.