Zeeshan Ahmed

Zeeshan Ahmed

Associate Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Research Interests

I investigate the early universe and subsequent growth of structure using the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To do so, I build and take data with low-noise detectors and experiments using superconducting and quantum sensing techniques.

I received my PhD in particle astrophysics from Caltech in 2012, working on direct detection of WIMP dark matter with the CDMS-II experiment. My research interests then expanded to cosmic inflation and observational cosmology. I was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford through 2015 before being appointed as a Wolfgang Panofsky Fellow at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.  In 2017, I won a DOE Office of Science Early Career Award.  I am currently appointed as a Lead Scientist at SLAC, where I am department head for CMB.  My publications are available on ORCIDGoogle Scholar and iNSPIRE-HEP

KIPAC Senior Member
Office(s)
Fred Kavli Building