Wang's BOBA group directly images young, self-luminous exoplanets by suppressing host-star glare with coronagraphy, extreme adaptive optics, and long-baseline optical interferometry (e.g. Keck/KPIC, VLTI), combined with physics-based computational signal-processing and machine-learning algorithms to extract faint planetary signals. He led early JWST direct-imaging detections of exoplanets and studies their orbits, formation, and atmospheres via high- and low-resolution spectroscopy. This is offered as an astronomy pivot on the filter: the enabling technology is increasingly complex opto-mechanical and computational instrumentation pushing spatial and spectral resolution, rather than a quantum sensor per se.

Studies molecular gas and the interstellar medium in galaxies using radio and millimeter interferometry (e.g., ALMA, CARMA).

Wurm's group builds and exploits large liquid-scintillator neutrino detectors, principally JUNO (reactor neutrinos, mass ordering) plus low-energy solar and geo-neutrino physics; work spans scintillator chemistry and optical purity, photosensor characterization, and reconstruction. Relative to the established NV-ensemble quantum-sensing playbook (DEER, nanoscale NMR, T1 relaxometry at pT/sqrt(Hz) ensemble sensitivity), included as a detector-instrumentation pivot -- the transferable content is ultra-low-noise photon counting and calibration at scale, not spin physics.