Assistant Professor
- Address:
- ERC 343
- Phone:
- (773) 834-5399
- Email:
- shiro@uchicago.edu
- Website
- https://kicp.uchicago.edu/~shiro/
Background
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
Research Fields
Cosmology
Detector development
Research Groups
Shirokoff Research Group (Leader)
Scientific Projects
South Pole Telescope (SPT)
SuperSpec
Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment
South Pole Telescope 3G (SPT-3G)
Affiliations
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Research
Erik develops novel cryogenic detectors operating at millimeter and submm-wavelengths for the study of high-redshift galaxies, the epoch of reionization, and the Cosmic Microwave Background. He's currently involved in three projects: SuperSpec is an on-chip filter-bank spectrometer technology. Its small size, wide spectral bandwidth, and highly multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detector readout will enable construction of powerful multi-object and integral-field spectrometers such as X-Spec, a proposed instrument for the CCAT telescope. The Tomographic Ionized-Carbon Mapping Experiment is an imaging spectrometer that will use 158 micron [CII] emission to probe reionization and large scale structure at redshifts 5-9. SPT-3G, the third generation camera for the South Pole Telescope, will observe the CMB with tens of thousands of polarization-sensitive, multi-chroic, lens-coupled TES sensors.