Research Scientist
- Address:
- ERC 343
- Email:
- ddutcher@uchicago.edu
Background
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2020
Scientific Projects: South Pole Telescope, Simons Observatory
Research
Daniel Dutcher's research focuses on building and using instruments to study the very early universe. He has worked on millimeter-wave telescopes in the Atacama Desert and the Antarctic plateau that measure the cosmic microwave background, the relic thermal radiation left over from the beginning of the universe.
As a member of the South Pole Telescope collaboration, Daniel worked on multiplexing readout and superconducting detector development for the SPT-3G project, and after deploying the receiver on the telescope, he led the first scientific analysis of SPT-3G data to produce constraints on cosmological parameters. As part of the Simons Observatory collaboration, Daniel managed the detector module assembly and testing program, built up the instruments in Chile, and headed Readout and Detector Operations in the field. Returning to his Antarctic roots, Daniel's current research focuses on the next camera to deploy to the South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G+.