Matthew A. Kenworthy’s Research Group
The Kenworthy group at Leiden Observatory is called the GROOVY Group, which is short for “rinGs, brown dwaRfs, exomoOns, and exOplanets Versatile observatorY, and GReat high cOntrast imaging microwave kinetic indUctance detectors grouP”.
Figure 1: The GROOVY group at Leiden Observatory in 2024
Current PhD students include:
- Richelle van Capelleveen (2023-)
- Michiel Darcis (2023-) with Pieter de Visser
- Hylke Hoogland (2023-)
- Dirk van Dam (2018-)
Previous students include:
Elina Kleisioti (2021-2025) with D. Dirkx
“Lighting Up Dark Exomoons: Observational signatures of tidally induced volcanism in other worlds”
Pengyu Liu (2022-2025) with B. Biller
“Surveying Young Substellar Objects: Formation Pathways and Atmospheres”
Maaike van Kooten (2017-2021) with N. Doelman
“Predicting the Future: Predictive Control for Astronomical Adaptive Optics”
Alex Bohn (2017-2021)
“Young suns and infant planets: Probing the origins of solar systems”
Emiel Por (2016-2020)
“Novel approaches for direct exoplanet imaging: theory, simulations and experiments”
Gilles Otten (2012-2016)
“Suppressing a Sea of Starlight: Enabling technology for the direct imaging of exoplanets”
Tiffany Meshkat (2012-2016)
“Extrasolar Planet Detection Through Spatially Resolved Observations”
Tim van Werkhoven (2010-2014) (one chapter on J1407) with C. Keller
“Lasers, lenses and light curves: adaptive optics microscopy and peculiar transiting exoplanets”