Faculty
Kirit S. Karkare, Assistant Professor of Physics
kkarkare@bu.edu Office: PRB 275
Feel free to email if you’d like to meet. Please check my schedule at this link for recurring appointments and propose a time when I’m not busy!
About me: Before joining BU, I was a staff scientist at SLAC, an NSF/Schramm/Grainger/KICP Fellow at UChicago and Fermilab, a Ph.D. student at Harvard, and an undergraduate at Caltech.
Graduate Students
Marcela Izquierdo Poza
Alex Lapuente
Annie Tan
Undergraduate Students
Simon Goldort
Leo Rava
Collaborators
We work closely with many other scientists, including but not limited to:
- BICEP/Keck Array
- Zeeshan Ahmed (SLAC), Colin Bischoff (Cincinnati), John Kovac (Harvard), Clara Verges (LBL)
- SPT-SLIM
- Adam Anderson (FNAL), Pete Barry (Cardiff), Brad Benson (FNAL), John Carlstrom (UChicago), Clarence Chang (ANL), Garrett Keating (CfA), Dan Marrone (Arizona)
- SuperSpec: Matt Bradford
- LIM studies: Simeon Bird (UC Riverside), Abby Crites (Cornell), Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah (LAPTh)
Alumni
Prior to moving to BU, our group was based at SLAC/KIPAC from 2022-2024.
Postdocs
- Carlos Sierra, Stanford University (KIPAC Fellow)
- Cheng Zhang, Stanford University (Porat Fellow)
Graduate Students
- Abhishek Mhatre, Boston University (2024-25)
- Elyssa Brooks, University of Chicago (Ph.D. 2024)
- Ryan McGeehan, University of Chicago (Ph.D. 2023)
- Donald (Michael) Zito, University of Cincinnati (SLAC SCGSR student 2024)
Undergraduates
- Haley Gonnella, SULI student
Erik Shirokoff
As a postdoc, Kirit worked in Erik Shirokoff’s UChicago laboratory. Erik passed away unexpectedly in 2023. His pioneering work enabled much of the research that we’re working on today. He was an exceptional scientist and educator, and is sorely missed.