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
Associate Professor, Physics
External Links
Recent Publications
Abazajian, K., Addison, G. E., Adshead, P., Ahmed, Z., Akerib, D., Ali, A., Allen, S. W., Alonso, D., Alvarez, M., Amin, M. A., Anderson, A., Arnold, K. S., Ashton, P., Baccigalupi, C., Bard, D., Barkats, D., Barron, D., Barry, P. S., Bartlett, J. G., ... Zonca, A. (2022). CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves. Astrophysical Journal, 926(1), [54]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1596
Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bergman, A. S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bonetti, J. A., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Doré, O., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., Filippini, J. P., Fraisse, A. A., Freese, K., Galloway, M., ... Young, E. Y. (2022). A Constraint on Primordial B-modes from the First Flight of the Spider Balloon-borne Telescope. Astrophysical Journal, 927(2), [174]. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac20df
Barron, D. R., Ahmed, Z., Aguilar, J., Anderson, A. J., Baker, C. F., Barry, P. S., Beall, J. A., Bender, A. N., Benson, B. A., Besuner, R. W., Cecil, T. W., Chang, C. L., Chapman, S. C., Chesmore, G. E., Derylo, G., Doriese, W. B., Duff, S. M., Elleflot, T., Filippini, J. P., ... Zhang, J. (2022). Conceptual design of the modular detector and readout system for the CMB-S4 survey experiment. In J. Zmuidzinas, & J-R. Gao (Eds.), Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI [121900B] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12190). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630494
Cornelison, J., Vergès, C., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Basu Thakur, R., Beck, D., Bischoff, C. A., Bock, J. J., Buza, V., Cheshire, J. R., Connors, J., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A. J., Denison, E. V., Dierickx, M. I., Duband, L., Eiben, M., ... Zhang, S. (2022). Improved 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 XI [121901X] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12190). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2620212
Filippini, J. P., Gambrel, A. E., Rahlin, A. S., Young, E. Y., Ade, P. A. R., Amiri, M., Benton, S. J., Bergman, A. S., Bihary, R., Bock, J. J., Bond, J. R., Bonetti, J. A., Bryan, S. A., Chiang, H. C., Contaldi, C. R., Doré, O., Duivenvoorden, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Farhang, M., ... Wiebe, D. V. (2022). In-Flight Gain Monitoring of SPIDER’s Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 209(3-4), 649-657. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02729-5