Suzanne T. Staggs

Suzanne T. Staggs is the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She holds leadership roles as Co-Director of the Simons Observatory and Principal Investigator of the Advanced ACTPol project. Her research focuses on measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation to study the early universe's physics. Staggs earned her Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University (1993) after completing her undergraduate studies at Rice University.

Her research interests include cosmology, particle physics, and observational astronomy, with a strong emphasis on CMB analysis and instrumentation. She leads large-scale projects like the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and contributes to next-generation experiments like the Simons Observatory aimed at mapping the CMB with unprecedented precision.

Staggs has received prestigious awards, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Sloan Fellowship and Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award. Her work bridges fundamental physics and observational astronomy, with a focus on uncovering clues about cosmic inflation, dark matter, and dark energy through CMB observations.

As an educator, she contributed to Princeton Problems in Physics, with Solutions, a resource for undergraduate students. Her current projects aim to advance CMB measurement techniques and interpret data from state-of-the-art telescopes in the Atacama Desert.