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
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Head, Research and Facilities, Physics
Associate Professor, Physics
Associate Professor, Astronomy
External Links
Recent Publications
Spider Collaboration (2025). Analysis of Polarized Dust Emission Using Data from the First Flight of SPIDER. Astrophysical Journal, 978(2), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad900c
(BICEP/ Keck Collaboration) (2025). BICEP/ Keck XVIII: Measurement of BICEP3 polarization angles and consequences for constraining cosmic birefringence and inflation. Physical Review D, 111(6), Article 063505. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.063505
Adler, A. E., Austermann, J. E., Benton, S. J., Duff, S. M., Filippini, J. P., Fraisse, A. A., Gascard, T., Gibbs, S. M., Gourapura, S., Hubmayr, J., Gudmundsson, J. E., Jones, W. C., May, J. L., Nagy, J. M., Okun, K., Padilla, I., Rooney, C., Tartakovsky, S., & Vissers, M. R. (2024). Modeling optical systematics for the Taurus CMB experiment. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024(9), Article 061. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/09/061
Brooks, E., Barry, P., Nie, R., Shirokoff, E., Filippini, J., Connors, J., Gradziel, M., Mercado, D., Spencer, L., Tramm, S., Trappe, N., & Zemcov, M. (2024). Development of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for a THz On-Chip Spectrometer. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 214(3-4), 230-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03043-4
Fatigoni, S., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. B., Bischoff, C. A., Beck, D., Bock, J. J., Buza, V., Cheshire, J., Connors, J., Cornelison, J., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A. J., Denison, E. V., Dierickx, M. I., Duband, L., Eiben, M., ... Zhang, S. (2024). Results and Limits of Time-Division Multiplexing for the BICEP Array High-Frequency Receivers. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 216(1-2), 29-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-024-03100-6