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John E. Carlstrom is the Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he is a leader in experimental astrophysics and cosmology. He is the director of the South Pole Telescope (SPT) project, contributing significantly to observational cosmology, specifically in measuring the temperature and polarization anisotropies of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. His research has advanced the understanding of inflation, the properties of neutrinos, and the nature of dark energy through high-resolution measurements of the SPT. His background includes a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, after which he has worked on various projects including the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES). He has been instrumental in developing new instrumentation and detector technology, enabling detailed studies of the universe's structure and evolution.
University of Chicago • Chicago, IL
Leading research and academic initiatives in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
South Pole Telescope Group • Chicago, IL
Leading the South Pole Telescope project to study the cosmic microwave background.
Department of Philosophy