Jian Ge

Dr. Jian Ge is a professor of astronomy at University of Florida. He is the Principal Investigator of the Dharma Planet Survey. He was the PI for the MARVELS survey of the SDSS-III program in 2008-2014, the PI for the EXPERT, LiJET and TOU (formerly EXPERT-III) optical Doppler instruments and also FIRST near IR Doppler instrument. He led the development of the first silicon grisms and large format silicon immersion gratings. He also led the development of the advanced image slicer integral field optics, and new generation coronagraphic image and pupil masks for TPF. His team discovered two new planets, confirmed two transiting planes, 18 brown dwarfs and over 400 new binaries, over 600 high redshift quasar 2175 Å dust absorbers and molecular hydrogen in four high-redshift damped Lyman alpha quasar absorbers, and measured high redshift Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation temperatures. The 8th order image mask concept proposed by him and his collaborators is one of the leading concepts for the NASATPF-C mission.