Suzanne Staggs is the Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She did her undergraduate work at Rice University and earned her Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1993. Her research interests include measuring the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation left over from the universal primeval plasma. She is currently one of the two Co-Directors of the Simons Observatory (SO) and a member of the SO Executive Board. She is also currently the Principal Investigator of the Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) project. The ACTPol multichroic detector array was the first multichroic array used to measure the CMB. TShe is a member of the National Academy of Science, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the APS. Her work has been recognized with a CAREER award, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award and a Sloan Fellowship.