Contact Information
1110 W Green
M/C 704
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
Observational Cosmology
Particle Astrophysics
Instrumentation
Research Description
My research interests lie at the intersection between the universe's workings on its largest and smallest scales. Recent work includes:(1) Observational cosmology with the cosmic microwave background, particularly the search for evidence of primordial gravitational waves with balloon-borne (SPIDER) and terrestrial (the BICEP/KeckArray program) instruments.(2) Searches for the interactions of particle dark matter in terrestrial detectors.(3) Development of advanced instrumentation for astrophysics and fundamental physics, often involving detectors operated at sub-Kelvin temperatures.My work involves both instrumentation development and data analysis.
Education
Physics, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Chemistry & Physics, A.B., Harvard University
Courses Taught
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Physics
External Links
Recent Publications
Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Anderson, A. J., Austermann, J. E., Avva, J. S., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. B., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Bianchini, F., Bischoff, C. A., Bleem, L. E., Bock, J. J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Carlstrom, J. E., ... Zhang, C. (2021). A demonstration of improved constraints on primordial gravitational waves with delensing. Physical Review D, 103(2), [022004]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.022004
Bicep/Keck collaboration (2021). BICEP/Keck XII: Constraints on axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background. Physical Review D, 103(4), [042002]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.042002
Baym, G., Beck, D. H., Filippini, J. P., Pethick, C. J., & Shelton, J. (2020). Searching for low mass dark matter via phonon creation in superfluid He 4. Physical Review D, 102(3), [035014]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.035014
Cornelison, J., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Basu Thakur, R., Bischoff, C., Bock, J. J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Cheshire, J. R., Connors, J., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A. J., Denison, E. V., Dierickx, M., Duband, L., Eiben, M., ... Zhang, S. (2020). Polarization calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole. In J. Zmuidzinas, & J-R. Gao (Eds.), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X [1145327] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11453). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562905
Cukierman, A., Ahmed, Z., Henderson, S., Young, E., Yu, C., Barkats, D., Brown, D., Chaudhuri, S., Cornelison, J., D’Ewart, J. M., Dierickx, M., Dober, B. J., Dusatko, J., Fatigoni, S., Filippini, J. P., Frisch, J. C., Haller, G., Halpern, M., Hilton, G. C., ... Zhang, C. (2020). Microwave Multiplexing on the Keck Array. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 199(3-4), 858-866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-019-02296-2