Sunil Golwala

Sunil Golwala is a Professor of Physics and Deputy Executive Officer for Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. His research focuses on Observational Cosmology and Instrumentation, with an emphasis on understanding dark matter and dark energy through mm-wave instrumentation and observational techniques. He has contributed to projects such as the development of MKIDCam for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory and involvement in experiments like BICEP2/Keck Array and SPIDER. Golwala also leads efforts in direct dark matter detection through experiments like CDMSII, SuperCDMS, and GEODM. His work includes collaborations with institutions such as JPL, Stanford, and SNOLAB.