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Photo: Chao-Lin Kuo, SLAC PPA Faculty

Chao-Lin Kuo
Assistant Professor

E-mail: clkuo@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Phone: (650) 926-5301
Group: KIPAC Physics Dept

Education

B.S., Physics, National Taiwan University, 1994; Ph.D., Astrophysics, U.C. Berkeley, 2003.

Professional Academic History

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), National Research Council postdoctoral fellow; Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor of Physics, Stanford, and SLAC, 2008-present.

Research Areas

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.

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Last update on 26 Sep 2008 by A. Rutherford