Emil Atz
Research Scientist
- Title Research Scientist
- Office PHO 718
- Email emilatz@bu.edu
- Education PhD, Boston University, 2023, Mechanical Engineering
MSE, Boston University, 2020, Mechanical Engineering
BSE, University of Connecticut, 2017, Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Space hardware and vacuum system specialist working on the development of soft X-ray and ultra-violet instruments. His soft X-ray imaging work aims to understand the dynamics of Earth’s magnetopause and it’s interactions with the solar wind using micro-pore optics. He was an engineer for the soft X-ray imaging missions, CuPID (cubesat, launch 2021) and LEXI (lunar telescope, launch 2024). Engineering efforts with ultra-violet light, specifically hydrogen Lyman-alpha, are developing a spectrograph to measure the flows of interplanetary hydrogen.