Benjamin Mazin

Assistant Professor

Contacts

Broida Hall 2015A, Physics 9530
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530

tel: (805)893-3344
fax: (805)893-3307
bmazin@physics.ucsb.edu

An Optical/UV MKID Array

Research Description

Research interests include finding terrestrial planets and detecting signatures of life in their atmospheres with near-IR, optical, and ultraviolet microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs).

Research Groups

• Mazin Lab

Biography

Ben attended Yale University, graduating in 1997. After Yale, Ben went to the California Institute of Technology, graduating with a doctorate in Astrophysics in August, 2004. After a short post-doc, Ben went to work as a scientist at JPL in March, 2005. Ben joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in September, 2008. He is married to Selene Eltgroth Mazin, a geochemist who he met in graduate school at Caltech.