Pat Zmarzly

Pat is an optical engineer in the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) Instrumentation group. He works in several areas of instrument development including optical and opto-mechanical design and analysis, stray light engineering and instrument performance modeling. He has extensive experience in the areas of instrument manufacturing, assembly, optical alignment, testing and metrology. He is currently serving as the Optical Engineering Lead for the Windcube project in addition to supporting design of the COSMO Large Coronagraph and multiple other instrument development efforts.

Prior to joining HAO Pat spent several years developing airborne instrumentation for cloud microphysics and atmospheric research. He received a BSME from Bradley University and a MSME from CU Boulder where he began his career in the optical instrumentation field using lasers to study fluid mechanics of combusting flows.