Simon Dicker

Simon Dicker is a Staff Researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on millimeter-wave astronomical instrumentation, with current projects centered on managing the MUSTANG2 camera on the 100m Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and contributing to the Simons Observatory collaboration's large aperture telescope efforts.

Research Contributions: Dicker plays a critical operational role in advancing millimeter-wave astronomy through hands-on leadership of the MUSTANG2 instrument, a cutting-edge bolometer array enabling high-resolution cosmic observations. His involvement with the Simons Observatory highlights his expertise in large-scale astronomical instrument development and collaborative astrophysics research.