Suzanne Staggs
{{short description|American physicist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Suzanne T. Staggs
| birth_date = {{birth date |1965|05|11}}
| fields = Cosmology
Cosmic microwave background
| alma_mater = Rice University
Princeton University
| workplaces = Princeton University
University of Chicago
| thesis_title = An absolute measurement of the cosmic background radiation temperature at 1.4 GHz
| doctoral_advisor = David Todd Wilkinson
}}
Suzanne T. Staggs (born May 11, 1965) is an American physicist who is currently the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University.{{Cite web |url=http://web.astro.princeton.edu/people/suzanne-staggs |title=Suzanne Staggs |publisher=princeton.edu |accessdate=April 15, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Suzanne&last_nm=Staggs&year=2004 |title=Award |publisher=aps.org |accessdate=April 15, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=a |title=Newly Elected Fellows |publisher=amacad.org |accessdate=April 15, 2017}} Staggs has led the development of numerous cosmic microwave background experiments and is currently the principal investigator (PI) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and founding member of the Simons Observatory (SO).{{Cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/suzanne-t-staggs|title=Suzanne T. Staggs|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|access-date=2019-05-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://gravity.princeton.edu/people/suzanne-staggs|title=Suzanne Staggs {{!}} The Princeton Gravity Initiative|website=gravity.princeton.edu|access-date=2019-05-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://admission.princeton.edu/academics/faculty-profiles/suzanne-staggs|title=Suzanne Staggs|date=2016-09-12|website=Princeton University Admission|language=en|access-date=2019-05-23}} In 2020, Staggs was elected into the National Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web|title=2020 NAS Election|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2020-nas-election.html|access-date=2020-10-04|website=www.nasonline.org}}
Education and career
Staggs received her B.A. in physics from Rice University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1993. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago for 3 years before joining the faculty at Princeton in 1996.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm|title=2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://kicp.uchicago.edu/people/profile/suzanne_staggs.html|title=KICP People {{!}} Suzanne Staggs|website=kicp.uchicago.edu|access-date=2019-05-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/participants/suzanne_staggs/|title=Suzanne Staggs|website=World Science Festival|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-23}} Staggs was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.{{Cite web|title=Suzanne T. Staggs|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/suzanne-t-staggs|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en|access-date=2020-05-10}}{{Cite web|title=2020 NAS Election|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2020-nas-election.html|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=2020-05-10}}
Research
Staggs's research is in cosmology, through observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). She has been involved in or led various CMB experiments since 1989 including XPER, PIQUE, CAPMAP, QUIET, ABS, ACT, and SO.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/mps/ast/aaac/members/2013-14_bios/staggs.pdf|title=Biography}}
Awards
- 2017 – Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2004 – Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physical Society
- 2000 - National Science Foundation Career Award
- 1998 – Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|website=sloan.org|access-date=2019-05-23}}
- 1994 – NASA Hubble Fellowship
- 1994 – Enrico Fermi Fellowship at the University of Chicago {{Cite web|url=https://efi.uchicago.edu/fellowship-recipients|title=Fellowship Recipients {{!}} The Enrico Fermi Institute {{!}} The University of Chicago|website=efi.uchicago.edu|access-date=2019-05-23}}
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