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
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
Osherson, B., Filippini, J. P., Fu, J., Gramillano, R. V., Gualtieri, R., Shaw, E. C., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Dore, O., Fraisse, A. A., Gambrel, A. E., Gandilo, N. N., Gudmundsson, J. E., ... Young, E. Y. (2020). Particle Response of Antenna-Coupled TES Arrays: Results from SPIDER and the Laboratory. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 199(3-4), 1127-1136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-020-02415-4
Schillaci, A., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. B., Bischoff, C. A., Bock, J. J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Cheshire, J., Connors, J., Cornelison, J., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A., Dierickx, M., Duband, L., Fatigoni, S., ... Zhang, C. (2020). Design and Performance of the First BICEP Array Receiver. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 199(3-4), 976-984. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-020-02394-6
Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Aikin, R. W., Barkats, D., Benton, S. J., Bischoff, C. A., Bock, J. J., Bowens-Rubin, R., Brevik, J. A., Buder, I., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Connors, J., Cornelison, J., Crill, B. P., Crumrine, M., Dierickx, M., Duband, L., Filippini, J. P., ... Zhang, C. (2019). BICEP2/Keck Array XI: Beam Characterization and Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in the BK15 Data Set. Astrophysical Journal, 884(2), [114]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab391d
Vieira, J., Aguirre, J., Bradford, C. M., Filippini, J., Groppi, C., Marrone, D., Bethermin, M., Chang, T. C., Devlin, M., Dore, O., Fu, J., Dunsheath, S. H., Holder, G., Keating, G., Keenan, R., Kovetz, E., Lagache, G., Mauskopf, P., Narayanan, D., ... Zmuidzinas, J. (2019). The Terahertz intensity mapper (TIM): An imaging spectrometer for galaxy evolution studies at high-redshift. 208-215. Paper presented at 2019 30th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, ISSTT 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden.