Professional photon slinger 📡 🛰🚀 | Integrated Microwave Photonics Lab | PhD, Researcher & Lecturer @ Sydney Uni, Free-Space Optical Communications and LiDAR | Formerly: JPL, UMich 🚀 Virgin Orbit Launch Demo 2 ‘21 🛰 MiTEE One ‘21 (Mark 2 ‘24) 🛰 SPHEREx ‘24 💻 Currently working on on-chip beam-steering with photonic cavity lasers for hybrid free-space optical and orbital space debris LiDAR capability. Massive nerd about semiconductor technology, material science and nanophotonics. Nose deep in communications tech. 📸 Also a commercial photographer @george.jli on TikTok Always happy to chat and discuss interesting projects! Opinions are my own* University of Michigan Alum 〽️