Michael P. Caffrey

Michael Caffrey is a Research and Development Engineer with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He was recently lead engineer for the electronics, FPGA design, and electronics ground support equipment on the MARS2020 SHERLOC spectrometer; he was also lead FPGA engineer on MARS2020 Supercam spectrometer. Mr. Caffrey was the hardware lead for the data acquisition system used in the BIMAP observations of lightning discharges. He presently leads hardware engineering for the RF system used in a multi-laboratory detection program. He has more than 30 years of experience in instrument electronics design, more than 40 publications and one patent.