Saptarshi Chaudhuri is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2019 and his B.S. in physics from Caltech in 2013. His research interests include particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics, with a special emphasis on axions and methods of dark matter detection. He has worked extensively with quantum sensors and superconducting detectors, such as parametric amplifiers, transition-edge sensors, and microwave kinetic inductance detectors. He is a recipient of several awards and honors including Stanford University’s Paul Kirkpatrick Award, given to graduate teaching assistants who have demonstrated excellence in the teaching of physics to undergraduates. He was a recipient of the Dicke Postdoctoral Fellowship from Princeton and the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship for graduate work.