Chi H. Nguyen

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I am a postdoctoral scholar research associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Before coming to Caltech, I received my Ph.D in astrophysics from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and BS in astronomy from the University of Arizona. I was a NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellow (2017 - 2020), and member of the RIT Center for Detectors.

My research interests are experimental cosmology and near-infrared instrumentation. More specifically, I study the process of how galaxies formed and evolved overtime through their ensemble emission across cosmic age (the extragalactic background light, EBL) at optical and near-infrared wavelengths (less than 5 micron). I am a member of the SPHEREx and CIBER missions, which combined wide-field telescopes with advanced near-infrared H2RG detectors optimized to probe the faint diffuse EBL.

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