Kirit Karkare
Assistant Professor, Physics
Kirit Karkare is an assistant professor of physics at Boston University. As an experimental cosmologist, he builds detectors and telescopes to observe faint radiation from the Big Bang and the first stars and galaxies to form. He completed a B.S. at Caltech, a Ph.D. at Harvard, and was a postdoc at UChicago and a staff scientist at SLAC before joining BU in 2025.