I am an Associate Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). My research in experimental cosmology focuses on understanding the physics of the very early Universe and testing potential extensions to the LCDM cosmological model. Much of this work involves developing novel millimeter-wave instruments to measure faint, diffuse radiation from early times: the integrated emission of high-redshift galaxies (line intensity mapping, or LIM) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
Projects that my team works on include:
- SPT-SLIM: a LIM pathfinder for the South Pole Telescope
- I initiated this project and am co-PI (with Adam Anderson and Pete Barry)
- SLAC article on SPT-SLIM
- Symmetry Magazine article on the LIM technique
- CMB-S4: the next-generation, "ultimate" CMB experiment
- I am the L3 lead for Small-Aperture Telescope calibration, and serve as Vice-Chair of the Governing Board
- SuperSpec: a millimeter-wave on-chip spectrometer for surveys of high-redshift galaxies
- BICEP/Keck Array: testing cosmic inflation with degree-scale CMB polarization at the South Pole
Interested in working with us? I am always happy to talk
to prospective students and postdocs, and to help frame
fellowship applications.
From 2020–2022 I was an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics
Postdoc at the University of Chicago and a Schramm Fellow
at Fermilab. From 2017–2020 I was a Grainger and KICP
Fellow at UChicago. In 2017 I completed my Ph.D. in the
Harvard CMB Lab, and before that I was an undergraduate at
Caltech.
