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Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, 2021

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2022

Andrew Hearin received his Ph.D. in physics in 2012 from the University of Pittsburgh. He worked as a postdoc in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at Fermi National Lab, and then as postdoctoral fellow at Yale before joining Argonne in 2017.

Ph.D., Physics, Ohio State University, 2021

Most people seek warmer destinations for travel to escape the tough Chicago winters. Brad Benson, on the other hand, sets his sights on the South Pole nearly every year. On his list of top reasons to visit: the intense cold creating extremely low levels of moisture in the air, dryer even than the highest mountain peaks in the world. 

Improvements include upgraded receiver, solar panels to power the observatory and data processing pipeline.

Cyndia is wrapping up her PhD in physics at Stanford/SLAC working on CMB instrumentation and analysis with Chao-Lin Kuo and Zeeshan Ahmed.

Led by PI Privitera, the DAMIC-M experiment published it’s first, world-leading results searching for sub-GeV dark matter via electron scattering in silicon CCDs.

I’m wrapping up a postdoc at the Center for Particle Cosmology at UPenn, and will join KICP this Fall.

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023

Ph.D. in Astronomy from Observatório Nacional, Brazil, 2019

Ph.D., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2019

In a new paper in Nature Astronomy, Taylor Hoyt –who received his Ph.D from UChicago in 2022 and is currently a researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division – presents a new approach to calibrating the measurement of the universe’s present day expansion rate.

Analysis combines Dark Energy Survey, South Pole Telescope data to understand evolution of universe