Professor
Dept. of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and the College
- Address:
- ERC 429
- Phone:
- 773 834 2988
- Email:
- avieregg@kicp.uchicago.edu
- Website:
- http://kicp.uchicago.edu/~avieregg/
Background
Prof. Vieregg is the David N. Schramm Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, and has been on the faculty at UChicago since 2014. Before coming to UChicago, Prof. Vieregg received her A.B. from Dartmouth College in 2004, her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2010, and was an NSF Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2010-2013).
Research
Prof. Vieregg builds radio and millimeter wave experiments and use them for neutrino astrophysics and cosmology with the cosmic microwave background. Vieregg is the PI of PUEO and RNO-G, which are balloon-borne and ground-based radio detectors for ultra-high energy neutrinos. She is also involved in BICEP and the South Pole Telescope (SPT), which observe the CMB from the South Pole, and CMB-S4, which is a future ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment. Although Prof. Vieregg has won many research-related awards, including the Shakti Duggal Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship, a Cottrell Scholar Award, a PECASE award, and a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator award, the award that she is most proud of is a “spherical cow award,” presented by the UChicago physics graduate students, for Best Teaching and Mentoring.
News & Highlights
- Professor Abigail Vieregg receives Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative Award, October 27, 2022
- Abigail Vieregg appointed Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, June 10, 2022
- PUEO Selected by NASA for Pioneers Program, January 8, 2021
- A Major Honor for Professor Vieregg, July 8, 2019
- Congratulations Abigail Vieregg, March 23, 2019
UChicago Neubauer Faculty Development Fellowship, for Innovative and Effective Teaching, 2018
Cottrell Scholar Award, 2018
NASA Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship for Early Career Researchers, 2017
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2017
Shakti P. Duggal Award, For Early Career Contributions in Cosmic Ray Physics, 2017