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
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
Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Thakur, R. B., Bischoff, C. A., Beck, D., Bock, J. J., Boenish, H., Bullock, E., Buza, V., Cheshire, J. R., Clark, S. E., Connors, J., Cornelison, J., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A., Denison, E. V., Dierickx, M., ... Zhang, S. (2023). BICEP/Keck. XVI. Characterizing Dust Polarization through Correlations with Neutral Hydrogen. Astrophysical Journal, 945(1), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb64c
Dierickx, M., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Basu Thakur, R., Bischoff, C. A., Beck, D., Bock, J. J., Buza, V., Cheshire, J., Connors, J., Cornelison, J., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A., Denison, E., Duband, L., Eiben, M., Fatigoni, S., ... Zhang, S. (2023). Plastic Laminate Antireflective Coatings for Millimeter-Wave Optics in BICEP Array. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 211(5-6), 366-374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-02967-1
Janssen, R. M. J., Nie, R., Bumble, B., Liu, L. J., Redford, J., Filippini, J. P., Bradford, C. M., Hailey-Dunsheath, S., Aguirre, J. E., Bracks, J. S., Corso, A. J., Fu, J., Groppi, C. E., Hoh, J., Keenan, R. P., Lowe, I. N., Marrone, D. P., Mauskopf, P. D., Trumper, I., & Vieira, J. D. (2023). Single Pixel Performance of the Kinetic Inductance Detectors for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 211(5-6), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02830-9
Schillaci, A., Ade, P. A. R., Ahmed, Z., Amiri, M., Barkats, D., Basu Thakur, R., Bischoff, C. A., Beck, D., Bock, J. J., Buza, V., Cheshire, J., Connors, J., Cornelison, J., Crumrine, M., Cukierman, A., Denison, E., Dierickx, M., Duband, L., Eiben, M., ... Zhang, S. (2023). BICEP Array: 150 GHz Detector Module Development. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 213(5-6), 317-326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-023-03005-w