Chao-Lin Kuo

(starting January, 2008)
Assistant Professor of Physics and SLAC

Phone: 650-736-7880

Room 322
Varian Physics Building
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4060

Research Interests

How did the Universe begin? Chao-Lin Kuo's group seeks to answer this profound question by studying the most ancient light, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, emitted when the universe was in its infancy.

Professor Kuo is involved in both the cosmological interpretation and instrumentation/technology development. The group frequently adopts advanced experimental techniques, such as cryogenics, superconductivity, and micromachining, to maximize detector's sensitivity to the faint CMB signal.

Ongoing projects:

BICEP/SPUD: A South-Pole based multi-telescope observatory that will carry out deep surveys of the CMB polarization.
SPIDER: A NASA long duration balloon that will produce polarized CMB maps over large sky area and wide frequency coverage.

Career History

B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University, 1994.
Ph.D., Astrophysics, U.C. Berkeley, 2003.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), National Research Council postdoctoral fellow.
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford, and SLAC, 2008

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