Israel Vaughn is an instrument scientist working in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. They have a background in optical instrumentation, optics for space, and polarimetric remote sensing. They have contributed to a number of ground and space optical systems, including the optical payloads for the UNSW M2 mission, the Veloce planet finding spectrograph, the MAVIS calibration unit, and the laser tomographic adaptive optics systems for the Giant Magellan Telescope. They also helped to establish the theoretical framework to treat polarimetric imaging systems as channelled communications systems. They are passionate about optics and novel optical techniques for space and astronomy. Israel is currently interested in the following research areas:

• Engineering Instrumentation
• Engineering Electromagnetics
• Astronomical Instrumentation
• Nonlinear Optics And Spectroscopy
• Space Instrumentation
• Classical And Physical Optics
• Novel imaging systems