Keith Vanderlinde

I'm an experimental cosmologist and long-wavelength radio instrumentalist. My group designs, builds, and operates large radio telescopes that map the structure of the Universe on its largest scales, and that catch transient signals from across it.

My primary scientific interests are in cosmology — in particular, in using neutral hydrogen as a tracer of large-scale structure to probe the expansion history of the Universe — and in the fast transient sky, especially Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Most of this work happens through CHIME and its myriad surveys, and through CHORD, a next-generation array now being built at DRAO.

Before coming to Toronto I was a postdoc at McGill, and before that a graduate student at the University of Chicago. I spent the austral winter of 2008 at the South Pole as a winterover on SPT.

I'm actively recruiting undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers interested in cosmology and radio instrumentation. If that sounds like you, please get in touch. Quick notes on the formal routes: summer undergraduate hiring goes through SURP; and graduate admissions are run at the departmental level — I'm appointed in both Astronomy and Physics, so interested candidates should look into their procedures and requirements.

Research

Four primary threads — click through for detail.

CHIME

21cm cosmology, FRBs, pulsars, and a growing VLBI Outrigger network.

CHORD

Next-generation 512-dish ultra-wideband array. Co-PI and Telescope Architect.

CHARTS

A new Chilean/Canadian FRB array under development outside Santiago.

Blue Sky

CARAT cubesat, horizon RFI antennas, ultra-low-noise amplifiers, radio DSP.

See also: assorted and legacy projects on Other.