Abigail Vieregg

David N. Schramm Director and Senior Member, KICP
Professor, Department of Physics, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, the College

Abigail Vieregg
Address:
Eckhardt Research Center
Room 429 and 499E
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone:
(773) 834-2988
Email:
avieregg@kicp.uchicago.edu
Website:
http://kicp.uchicago.edu/~avieregg/
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Background

Before coming to UChicago, Prof. Vieregg received her A.B. from Dartmouth College in 2004, her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2010, and was an NSF Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2010-2013).

Research

Prof. Vieregg builds radio and millimeter wave experiments and use them for neutrino astrophysics and cosmology with the cosmic microwave background.  Vieregg is the PI of PUEO and RNO-G, which are balloon-borne and ground-based radio detectors for ultra-high energy neutrinos.  She is also involved in BICEP and the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which observe the CMB from the South Pole, and CMB-S4, which is a future ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment.  Although Prof. Vieregg has won many research-related awards, including the Shakti Duggal Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship, a Cottrell Scholar Award, a PECASE award, and a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator award, the award that she is most proud of is a “spherical cow award,” presented by the UChicago physics graduate students, for Best Teaching and Mentoring.

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