Phil Korngut, PhD

Professional Preparation

2011: PhD. in Physics, UPENN, Philadelphia, PA
2009: MS. in Physics, UPENN, Philadelphia, PA
2005: BA. in Physics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2001: LaGuardia High School, New York, NY

Professional Appointments

2015-Present: Scientific Researcher in Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
2014-2015: Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
2011-2014: NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
2007-2011: Graduate Research Assistant, UPENN, Philadelphia PA
2005-2007: Scientific Associate, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV
2003-2005: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Oberlin College Physics Department, Oberlin, OH

Fellowships

2011-2014: NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2010-2011: Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2009-2010: Graduate Student Support Program, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
2008-2009: Graduate Student Support Program, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Awards

2014 NASA Group Achievement Award, CIBER collaboration.
“For exceptional dedication and teamwork deploying and flying four successful sounding rocket flights which furthered our understanding of the Cosmos.”

Field Deployments

Apr-Jun 2013, Wallops Flight Facility, VA, CIBER rocket integration and launch operations (Experiment Lead).
Dec 2013, Atacama Desert, Chile, ZSPEC on APEX instrument operation and observations.
Dec 2013, Mauna Kea, HI, Bolocam on the CSO instrument operation and observations.
Jan-Mar 2012, White Sands Missile Range, NM, CIBER rocket integration, launch operations and payload recovery.
Dec 2011, Mauna Kea, HI, Bolocam on the CSO instrument operation and observations.
2005-2011 (6 months total interspersed), Green Bank WV, MUSTANG integration and observations.

Teaching

2014: SURF Undergraduate research program mentor, Caltech
2007: Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
2007: Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Astronomy observation lab, University of Pennsylvania

Selected Presentations

2015 : CIBER Estimates of the ZL absolute intensity through Fraunhofer absorption line spectroscopy,
- The Near Infrared Background II, MPA, Munich, Germany
2015 : SPHEREx, an all-sky NIR spectroscopic survey,
- The Near Infrared Background II, MPA, Munich, Germany
2014 : Studying Extragalactic Background Fluctuations with CIBER-2,
- SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation, Montreal, Canada
2014 : Rocket-borne absolute spectro-photometry of the near infrared extragalactic background,
- Astrophysics Seminar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
2013 : Absolute Spectro-photometry with CIBER,
- Research Seminar, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersberg, MD
2013 : Cosmology from the Background,
- Public Lecture, Santa Monica Amateur Astronomy Club, Santa Monica, CA
2012 : CIBER: The Narrow Band Spectrometer,
- Near Infrared Background and the Epoch of Reionization, Texas Cosmology Center, Austin, TX
2011 : Probing Cluster Cores Through High Resolution Sunyaev Zel'dovich Imaging
:from MUSTANG and the GBT, Dissertation Talk,
- 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle, WA
2010 : MUSTANG on the GBT and its Application to Resolved Sunyaev Zel'dovich Imaging,
- seminar, California Institute of Technology Observational Cosmology, Pasadena, CA
2010 : SZE imaging at High Resolution, seminar,
- University of Pennsylvania Astronomy, Philadelphia, PA
2010 : SZE imaging with MUSTANG,
-SnoCluster,SnowBird, UT
2009 : SZE in RXJ1347-1145 at High Resolution, Seminar, Princeton Gravity Group, Princeton, NJ
2009 : Using The GBT at 90 GHz,
: Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, Taipei, TW
2008 : 3mm Observations of the Orion Nebula, AAS meeting, St. Louis, MO