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Dr. Mark Ammons is an astronomer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He joined the laboratory in 2011 after visiting the University of Arizona on a Hubble Fellowship and receiving his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dr. Ammons' research focuses on detection and characterization of planets outside of our solar system through adaptive optics and astrometry. The number of known exoplanets has skyrocketed as telescopes and instrumentation have improved - and with adaptive optics, it is now possible to measure the chemical compositions of giant planets in wide orbits. Dr. Ammons is a member of the Gemini Planet Imager science team and the Thirty Meter Telescope Exoplanets Science Definition Team.