Gerardo Berlanga Molina: Mechanical Engineering and Optics
Here you’ll find various engineering projects, experiments, research endeavors, and more.
Astronomical Instrumentation Team
The Astronomical Instrumentation Team (AIT) at MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research is a laboratory that specializes in the creation of state-of-the-art scientific instruments that help researchers and scientists further comprehend our cosmos through studying topics such as galaxy formation, absorption and emission in the Circumgalactic Medium, and classification of LSST transients, to name a few.
In my time, I have been involved with the development of the Large Lenslet Array Magellan Spectrograph (LLAMAS) which was commissioned at the 6.5 m Walter Baade Magellan Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert in late 2024.
Preventing a changing gravity vector on optics
Automatic Levelling System
Mitigating detrimental atmospheric effects
Atmospheric Dispersion Compensator
MIT Grad
Graduate classes typically do not feature exams. Instead, the assignment of focus is commonly a large project that is the culmination of a semester of rigorous research and coursework. Some projects are individual work, and others are completed as a group.
H-alpha filter for Emission Nebula imaging
2.719 Photonic Materials
Optical communication through a turbulent atmosphere
2.710 Optics
MIT Undergrad
Undergraduate classes centered around large projects
Learning how to mass-manufacture
2.008 Design and Manufacturing II
Researching and analyzing data
2.671 Measurement and Instrumentation
Predicting data with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
2.C01 Modeling Physical Systems with Machine Learning
Building a robot
2.007 Design and Manufacturing I
Building a robot
2.00B Toy Product Design
A Glimpse into Gerardo’s Achievements
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