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Tommaso Ghigna
Assistant Professor
e-mail tommaso.ghigna-at-kek.jp
I am an astrophysicist by training with a strong interest in instrumentation. I have been interested in cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) since I was an undergraduate student in Milan, Italy. To follow my passion, I moved for my doctorate to Oxford, UK, and then to Kavli IPMU in Japan, first as an exchange student and then as a postdoc. I recently moved to QUP to focus on the TES detector development for the LiteBIRD space mission.
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Early in my academic career I worked on the characterization of the radiometers for the LSPE/STRIP experiment of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). During my doctorate training I worked on designing, fabricating and characterizing various RF components (bandpass filters, LNAs, RF absorbers, etc) for one of the SKA prototype receivers.
After moving to Japan I have dedicated most of my time to the LiteBIRD space mission. In particular, I focused on superconductive TES detector characterization and modelling, as well as studies of various systematic effects (mostly related to bandpass, HWP and detectors non-idealities) for the purpose of developing mitigating techniques.
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