Kana Sakaguri

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Postdoctoral Fellow
WLC-258A
Research Areas: 
Astrophysics & Cosmology
Research Type: 
Experimentalist
Current Projects: 

21 cm cosmology, Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)

Biographical Sketch: 

I received my Ph.D. in 2025 from the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Akito Kusaka. As a graduate student, I developed optical elements, particularly anti-reflection coatings, for ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments: the Simons Array and the Simons Observatory. During my Ph.D., I worked on deployment, observation strategy, data transfer, calibration, and data analysis for millimeter-wave circular polarization searches of astronomical sources with the Simons Array experiment.

Research: 

I work on 21 cm cosmology in Laura Newburgh’s group. I am a member of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). My focus is on analyzing the visibility data while understanding the instruments for CHIME.

Education: 
Ph.D. 2025, University of Tokyo
Advisor: 
Laura Newburgh