Biography

Professor Vieira is an observational cosmologist who works across the electromagnetic spectrum. His scientific interests include: the cosmic microwave background, experimental tests of inflation; dark matter; dark energy; gravitational lensing; high redshift galaxies; instrumentation.

He builds experiments, conducts cosmological surveys, and performs observations of the distant Universe. He works with data from the South Pole Telescope, Herschel, Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, and ALMA.

He is currently helping to build future mm and sub-millimeter facilities, pondering the cosmic evolution of dust and ionized carbon, and working to detect signatures of inflation through polarized measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Prof. Vieira is currently looking for grad students to work on the following projects:

1) Micro-fabrication of novel photon detectors for astronomy and cosmology.

2) Instrumentation for a new camera for the South Pole Telescope.

3) Analysis of South Pole Telescope survey data.

4) Observations of strong gravitationally lensed galaxies at high-redshift.

Students are welcome and encouraged to drop by with questions about science, instrumentation, or available research projects.

Research Interests

• High redshift galaxies
• cosmic dust
• Dark matter, dark energy, inflation, relic neutrino background
• Gravitational Lensing
• Instrumentation
• Extragalactic Surveys
• The cosmic star formation history and the epoch of reionization
• The Early Universe
• The Cosmic Microwave Background
• Experimental Cosmology

Selected Articles in Journals

• Hanson, D., Hoover, S., Crites, A., et al., "Detection of B-Mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope," Physical Review Letters, vol. 111, id. 141301 (2013)
• Riechers, D.A., Bradford, C. M., Clements, D. L., Dowell, C. D., Perez-Fournon, I., Ivison, R. J., Bridge, C., Conley, A., Fu, H., Vieira, J.D., et al., "A dust-obscured massive maximum-starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34," Nature, Volume 496, Issue 7445, pp. 329-333 (2013)
• Vieira, J.D., Marrone, D.P., et al., "Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing," Nature, Volume 495, Issue 7441, pp. 344-347 (2013)
• Page, M. J.; Symeonidis, M.; Vieira, J.D., et al., "The suppression of star formation by powerful active galactic nuclei," Nature, Volume 485, Issue 7397, pp. 213-216 (2012)
• Carlstrom, J.E., et al., "The 10 Meter South Pole Telescope," Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, pp. 568-581 (2011)
• Vieira, J.D., Crawford, T.M., Switzer, E.R., et al.,  "Extragalactic millimeter-wave sources in South Pole Telescope survey data: source counts, catalog, and statistics for an 87 square-degree field," The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 719, pp. 763-783 (2010)
• Staniszewski, Z., et al., "Galaxy Clusters Discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Survey," The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 701, pp. 32-41 (2009)