Laura Newburgh
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- Buchalter Cosmology Prize (2024, shared)
- AAS Berkeley Prize (2022, shared)
- NSF CAREER Award (2018)
Laura Newburgh | |
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| Alma mater | Columbia University (Ph.D., 2010) |
| Known for | CHIME, HIRAX, Simons Observatory |
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| Fields | Experimental cosmology, radio astronomy, cosmic microwave background |
| Institutions | Yale University |
Laura B. Newburgh is an American experimental cosmologist and associate professor of physics at Yale University, where she is a member of the Wright Laboratory and the Department of Astronomy.[1][2] She builds instruments for radio telescopes and CMB telescopes to probe dark energy, dark matter, neutrino mass, and cosmic inflation.[3] She is a member of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), the Hydrogen Intensity Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX), the Simons Observatory, and CMB-S4.[1]
Newburgh received her Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 2010, where she worked on the Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET), a ground-based CMB polarization experiment designed to measure the B-mode polarization signal from inflation.[1][3] As a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University from 2010 to 2013, she worked on low-temperature detector characterization, integration, and deployment for ACTPol, the polarization-sensitive receiver on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.[1]
From 2013 to 2016, Newburgh was a Dunlap Fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, where she began working on novel calibration methods for CHIME, developing a holographic technique to map the telescope beam.[4][5]
Newburgh joined Yale University as an assistant professor of physics in January 2017.[4] She was subsequently promoted to associate professor.[2]