Suzanne T. Staggs (born May 11, 1965) is an American physicist who is currently the

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Professor of Physics at

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. Staggs has led the development of numerous cosmic microwave background experiments and is currently the

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(PI) of the

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(ACT) and founding member of the Simons Observatory (SO). In 2020, Staggs was elected into the National Academy of Sciences.

Education and career

Staggs received her B.A. in physics from

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in 1987 and her Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1993. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the

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for 3 years before joining the faculty at Princeton in 1996. Staggs was elected as a member of the

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in 2017 and a member of the

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in 2020.

Research

Staggs's research is in

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, through observations of the

cosmic microwave background In Big Bang cosmology the cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR) is electromagnetic radiation that is a remnant from an early stage of the universe, also known as "relic radiation". The CMB is faint cosmic background radiation filling all spac ...

(CMB). She has been involved in or led various CMB experiments since 1989 including XPER, PIQUE, CAPMAP,

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, ABS, ACT, and SO.

Awards

* 2017 – Fellow of the

* 2004 – Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

* 2000 -

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

Career Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

* 1998 –

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

* 1994 –

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

Hubble Fellowship The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations center for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and science operations center for th ...

* 1994 – Enrico Fermi Fellowship at the University of Chicago

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Staggs, Suzanne Living people Princeton University faculty 21st-century American physicists Rice University alumni Princeton University alumni 1965 births

Education and career

Research

Awards

See also

References