Sofia Fatigoni

I was born in Perugia (Italy) in 1993, where I studied at the Liceo Classico A.Mariotti. During those years, despite the few monthly hours of Physics, I spent most of my time building batteries and circuits, which are conserved in the school museum. 

In 2012 I moved to Rome to study in La Sapienza. I studied in Physics, for my bachelor degree, and Astrophysics for my master degree. In 2017 I moved to Vancouver for my PhD at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and started working on the BICEP Array telescope, designing part of the hardware.

During these years I have also started my own data analysis project, and invented a new method to clean our Cosmological data from atmospheric noise, which is one of the main challenges for high precision ground experiments.

As part of the BICEP Array hardware team, that is the group of people that designed and built the receivers, I took part to two Antarctic missions to deploy these receivers at the South Pole. Since 2022 I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech, where I keep on working on BICEP Array, but also on new technology development for the next generation of Cosmic Microwave Background telescopes.