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Robert Simcoe 🔗
Professor (Francis L. Friedman Professor of Physics); Director, MIT Kavli Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 🔗
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Email: rsimcoe@mit.edu
Status: unreviewed revisit date: None Application status: none LOR status: not_needed
Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Simcoe Group: Extragalactic Observations and Instrumentation @ MIT
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NON-PREFERRED (astronomy pivot, kept for review). Simcoe designs and builds custom cryogenic infrared spectrographs (FIRE, and the new fiber-fed LLAMAS integral-field spectrograph) for the Magellan telescopes to study the chemistry of galaxies and quasars in the first billion years after the Big Bang; this is an instrumentation-driven astro program rather than a quantum-sensor program per se, so it is included as a borderline pivot.

Created at: July 9, 2026, 8:03 p.m. Updated at: July 9, 2026, 8:03 p.m. Metadata: MIT Kavli/Physics pages reviewed Jul 2026.