Andrea Hidalgo is a DPhil student in astrophysics at the University of Oxford. Her thesis work is in astronomical instrumentation, specifically instrumentation for HARMONI, the first light visible and near-IR integral field spectrograph for the ELT.
She studied a Bachelor in Mechatronics Engineering at Universidad la Salle (Mexico City) and a Master of Science in Astrophysics at INAOE (Puebla, Mexico). She is originally from Mexico. She has experience in optics manufacturing, and metrology, cryogenic optomechanics and coatings testing as well as in the development of integration, assembly and verification plans for the HARMONI cameras. Additionally, as part of her degree, sometimes she spends her time looking at the surface composition of the satellites of Jupiter with integral field spectrographs.
She is currently a member of the Oxford University Mexican Society.
Follow her and her research on social media.
Twitter:@LaurethTeX(link is external)
LinkedIn:andreaahidalgov(link is external)
Her preferred pronouns are she\her, ella\la\-a (Spanish).