Associate Fellow, KICP
Grainger Fellow, Department of Physics
- Address:
- Eckhardt Research Center
Room 427
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
- Phone:
- (773) 702-4314
- Email:
- kkarkare@kicp.uchicago.edu
- Website:
- https://scholar.harvard.edu/kkarkare
Background
Ph.D., Astrophysics, Harvard, 2017
Research
I'm an experimental cosmologist, and I'm particularly interested in understanding the physics of inflation and dark energy - two mysterious ingredients in our cosmological model. My work focuses on developing new millimeter-wave instruments to measure the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure through line intensity mapping, and takes place within the South Pole Observatory (BICEP/Keck Array + South Pole Telescope), CMB-S4, and SuperSpec collaborations.
Outside of research I spend my time cooking (or just thinking about food), running (reluctantly), and flying (usually as a passenger, but occasionally at the controls).