About Dr. Kirit Karkare
Dr. Karkare is an associate staff scientist at SLAC. He develops millimeter-wave instrumentation to observe the universe at the largest scales, testing the physics of inflation, dark energy, and early galaxy formation. With the BICEP, CMB-S4, SuperSpec, and SPT-SLIM collaborations, he works on telescopes deployed at the South Pole and the Large Millimeter Telescope in Mexico. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard in 2017 and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago and Fermilab.