Dr. Omid Noroozian

Dr. Noroozian serves as the Deputy Chief Technologist for NASA Astrophysics Division (APD) at the Science Mission Directorate and oversees the technology portfolio for Astrophysics at NASA Headquarters. He is a former NASA Technology Fellow in Astrophysics, Detector Systems Engineer at GSFC, Associate Scientist at the NRAO, Research Prof at the UVA, Research Scientist at UMD, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at GSFC's Observational Cosmology Lab, and Postdoctoral Researcher at NIST's Quantum Sensors Group. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech where he pioneered work on Kinetic Inductance Detectors with the Submillimeter Astrophysics Group, M.S. in Applied Physics from Caltech, Microelectronics from the Delft University of Technology at the Quantum Nanoelectronics group at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience.
He has 18 years of experience in research and engineering of quantum electro-optical and microwave cryogenic systems for astrophysical telescopes and remote sensing instruments (from the far-Infrared to X-ray and gamma-ray). His research has been in the areas of:

• Quantum electronics and photonics engineering for space- and ground-based astrophysics
• Cryogenic photon detectors, focal-plane arrays, and integrated photonics spectrometers
• Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID), Transition-Edge Sensors (TES), and ultrasensitive bolometers
• Electronic readout and multiplexing circuits (analog and digital) for large-format cryogenic sensor arrays
• Quantum-noise-limited parametric amplifiers (RF/microwave/millimeter-wave) and their applications
• Submillimeter/THz heterodyne SIS receiver systems for very high-resolution spectroscopy
• Superconducting circuits and technology for synergistic applications in quantum computing, precision measurement, and astrophysical instruments
• Experimental superconductivity and novel materials fabrication for photon detectors

His publications can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=omidnorooozian