Stephen Padin

University of Chicago
5640 S Ellis Avenue ERC337, Chicago IL 60637 USA
e-mail: spadin@uchicago.edu Tel: 773 834 9786

Education

7/82 B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Physics University of Manchester England

10/83 Dip. Adv. Stud. Sci. in Radio Astronomy, University of Manchester

11/85 Ph.D. University of Manchester (advisor: R. J. Davis)

Awards

1980 Heginbottom Exhibition, University of Manchester

1981 Hatfield Scholarship and Moseley Physics Prize, University of Manchester

1993 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, A.R. Chi Prize Paper Award for S. Padin, T. S. Clark, M. S. Ewing, R. P. Finch, R. P. Lawrence, J. Navarro, S. L. Scott, N. Z. Scoville, C. Seeliger and T. V. Seling A High Speed Digital Correlator for Radio Astronomy IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 42(4), 793-798 (1993)

Professional Experience

9/78-9/79 Research Engineer, Marconi Research Laboratories

7/85-4/86 Senior Research Engineer, Marconi Research Laboratories

4/86-9/87 Engineer, Owens Valley Radio Observatory California Institute of Technology

9/87-9/88 Senior Scientist, California Institute of Technology

9/88-7/89 Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology

7/89-6/03 Senior Scientist, Member of the Professional Staff, California Institute of Technology (7/89-8/95 electronics & cryogenics manager for the expansion of the OVRO Millimeter Array; 8/95-8/01 Project Scientist for the Cosmic Background Imager; 3/02-6/03 Head of CELT Engineering, Caltech Optical Observatories)

6/03-4/09 Senior Scientist, University of Chicago (6/03-4/09 Project Manager for the South Pole Telescope; 1/07-11/07 Station Science Leader at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station)

4/09-5/15 Senior Research Associate, Kilroy Fellow, California Institute of Technology (2/11-9/14 Chief Engineer for CCAT)

5/15-3/17 Senior Scientist, University of Chicago

3/17- Research Professor, University of Chicago

Professional Organizations

Royal Astronomical Society FRAS

Institution of Engineering and Technology MIET, Chartered Engineer

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Senior Member

Union Radio Scientifique Internationale Member

SPIE Member


Stephen Padin spadin@uchicago.edu
2017 May 20