Kirit Karkare
Assistant Professor, Physics
Kirik Karkare is an experimental cosmologist. He builds telescopes to observe faint radiation in the millimeter-wave region, including the cosmic microwave background and distant galaxies, to learn about the Big Bang and fundamental physics in the early universe. Related photonics interest lays in utilizing OPF to fabricate sensitive superconducting photon detectors, as his cameras require detector arrays that must be custom-made.