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1 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics ERC South Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL Office: , Home: THOMAS M. CRAWFORD University of Chicago DEGREES PhD University of Chicago. Astronomy & Astrophysics MS University of Chicago. Astronomy & Astrophysics BS DePaul University. Physics BA Columbia University. German Language & Literature DISSERTATION HONORS Title: Mapping the Southern Polar Cap with a Balloon-borne Millimeter-wave Telescope. Advisor: Stephan Meyer. National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow NASA Center of Excellence Award NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship B.S. conferred With Highest Honors. B.A. conferred Magna Cum Laude. ACADEMIC POSITIONS University of Chicago: Research Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Senior Researcher, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Present. University of Chicago: Senior Research Associate, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Senior Researcher, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago: Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Associate Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago: Research Associate, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics; Associate Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Chicago / Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellow University of Chicago: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Chicago: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics

2 Thomas M. Crawford, page 2 of 9 RECENT SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Member, CMB-S4 Conceptual Design Task Force, 2016 present Chapter lead and coordinating committee member, CMB-S4 Science Book, 2016 present Member of organizing committee, CMB-S4 science meetings, 2016 present Member, NASA Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) Users Group, 2016 present Referee, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, and others, 2008 present NASA review panel member, 2013 present RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES Bradley University: Illinois Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. October, Augustana College: Harry Nelson Lecture in Astronomy. April, RECENT INVITED COLLOQUIA AND SEMINARS DePaul University: Physics Colloquium. January, University of Texas: LHC Results Forum. February, RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS National Academy of Sciences: 2014 U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium. November, (Invited talk) Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics: Cosmology Beyond the Power Spectrum. April, (Invited talk) RECENT PUBLIC OUTREACH Astronomy on Tap, Austin, TX: Life (and Astronomy) at the Bottom of the World. June, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station: In association with Adler Planetarium, blogging and tweeting as South Pole Telescope. January, Joliet Junior College: Public Lecture on the South Pole Telescope and Life in Antarctica. April, Adler Planetarium: Special Astronomy Conversation in honor of the Centennial of Man s Arrival at the South Pole. December, 2011 and January, Rogers Park Montessori School: Lecture to First-through-Third-Grade Students on Life in Antarctica. February, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Cosmic Images: Beyond Beauty A Panel Discussion on the Nature and Meaning of Images in Astrophysics (Panelist). June, 2010.

3 Thomas M. Crawford, page 3 of 9 POPULAR ARTICLES Particle Physics and the Cosmic Microwave Background. John E. Carlstrom, Thomas M. Crawford, and Lloyd Knox. Physics Today, March, REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Maps of the Magellanic Clouds from Combined South Pole Telescope and Planck Data. T. Crawford, R. Chown, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 227, 3 (2016). SPT-GMOS: A Gemini/GMOS-South Spectroscopic Survey of Galaxy Clusters in the SPT-SZ Survey. M. Bayliss, J. Ruel, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 227, 3 (2016). Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clusters in the 2500 Square-degree SPT-SZ Survey. T. de Haan, B. Benson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 832, 95 (2016). Millimeter Transient Point Sources in the SPTpol 100 Square Degree Survey. N. Whitehorn, T. Natoli, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 830, 143 (2016). Joint measurement of lensing-galaxy correlations using SPT and DES SV data. E. Baxter, J. Clampitt, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461, 4099 (2016). Detection of the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel dovich effect with DES Year 1 and SPT. B. Soergel, S. Flender, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461, 3172 (2016). ALMA Imaging and Gravitational Lens Models of South Pole Telescope-Selected Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshifts. J. Spilker, D. Marrone, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 826, 112 (2016). CMB lensing tomography with the DES Science Verification galaxies. T. Giannantonio, P. Fosalba, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456, 3213 (2016). Cross-correlation of gravitational lensing from DES Science Verification data with SPT and Planck lensing. D. Kirk, Y. Omori, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459, 21 (2016). The Redshift Distribution of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies from the SPT Survey. M. Strandet, A. Weiß, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 826, 112 (2016). Probing star formation in the dense environments of z 1 lensing haloes aligned with dusty star-forming galaxies detected with the South Pole Telescope. N. Welikala, M. Béthermin, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455, 1629 (2016). Constraints on the richness-mass relation and the optical-sze positional offset distribution for SZE-selected clusters. A. Saro, S. Bocquet, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454, 2305 (2015). Fabrication of large dual-polarized multichroic TES bolometer arrays for CMB measurements with the SPT-3G camera. C. M. Posada, P. A. R. Ade, et al. Superconductor Science and Technology, 28, 9 (2015). A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Gravitational Lensing Potential from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data. K. T. Story, D. Hanson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 810, 50

4 Thomas M. Crawford, page 4 of 9 (2015). Measurements of Sub-degree B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data. R. Keisler, S. Hoover, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 807, 151 (2015). A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters Using Data from the South Pole Telescope. E. J. Baxter, R. Keisler, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 806, 247 (2015). Measurements of E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data. A. T. Crites, J. W. Henning, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 805, 36 (2015). Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel dovich effect mass-observable relations using South Pole Telescope observations of an X-ray selected sample of low-mass galaxy clusters and groups. J. Liu, J. Mohr, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448, 2085 (2015). Inflation Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure. Report from the Dark Energy and CMB working group for the American Physical Society s Division of Particles and Fields long-term planning exercise ( Snowmass ). K. N. Abazajian, K. Arnold, et al. (T. M. Crawford, corresponding author.) Astroparticle Physics, 63, 55 (2015) Neutrino Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure. Report from the Dark Energy and CMB working group for the American Physical Society s Division of Particles and Fields long-term planning exercise ( Snowmass ). K. N. Abazajian, K. Arnold, et al. Astroparticle Physics, 63, 66 (2015) Galaxy Clusters Discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel dovich Effect in the 2500-Square-Degree SPT-SZ Survey. L. E. Bleem, B. Stalder, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 216, 27 (2015). Mass Calibration and Cosmological Analysis of the SPT-SZ Galaxy Cluster Sample Using Velocity Dispersion σ v and X-Ray Y X Measurements. S. Bocquet, A. Saro, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 799, 214 (2015). A Measurement of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the 2500 Square-degree SPT-SZ Survey. E. M. George, C. L. Reichardt, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 799, 177 (2015). Measurement of Galaxy Cluster Integrated Comptonization and Mass Scaling Relations with the South Pole Telescope. B. R. Saliwanchik, T. E. Montroy, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 799, 137 (2015). Detection of B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope. D. Hanson, S. Hoover, et al. Physical Review Letters, 111, SPT-3G: a next-generation cosmic microwave background polarization experiment on the South Pole telescope. B. A. Benson, P. A. R. Ade, et al. Proceedings of the SPIE, 9153 A measurement of the secondary-cmb and millimeter-wave-foreground bispectrum using 800

5 Thomas M. Crawford, page 5 of 9 square degrees of South Pole Telescope data. T. M. Crawford, K. K. Schaffer, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 784, 143 (2014). Constraints on the CMB Temperature Evolution using Multi-Band Measurements of the Sunyaev Zel dovich Effect with the South Pole Telescope. A. Saro, J. Liu, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 440, 2610 (2014). The Redshift Evolution of the Mean Temperature, Pressure, and Entropy Profiles in 80 SPT-Selected Galaxy Clusters. M. McDonald, B. A. Benson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 794, 67 (2014). SPT-CL J : An SZ-selected Galaxy Cluster at z = with Significant Ongoing Star Formation. M. Bayliss, M. L. N. Ashby, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 794, 12 (2014). Optical Spectroscopy and Velocity Dispersions of Galaxy Clusters from the SPT-SZ Survey. J. Ruel, G. Bazin, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 792, 45 (2014). The Rest-Frame Submillimeter Spectrum of High-Redshift, Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies. J. S. Spilker, D. P. Marrone, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 785, 149 (2014). The Spitzer South Pole Telescope Deep Field: Survey Design and Infrared Array Camera Catalogs. M. L. N. Ashby, S. A. Stanford, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 209, 22 The Growth of Cool Cores and Evolution of Cooling Properties in a Sample of 83 Galaxy Clusters at 0.3 < z < 1.2 Selected from the SPT-SZ Survey. M. McDonald, B. A. Benson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 774, 23 Large gas reservoirs and free-free emission in two lensed star-forming galaxies at z = 2.7. M. Aravena, E. J. Murphy, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 433, 498 A direct measurement of the linear bias of mid-infrared-selected quasars at z 1 using cosmic microwave background lensing. J. E. Geach, R. C. Hickox, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 776, L41 A Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Mass Map and Its Correlation with the Cosmic Infrared Background. G. P. Holder, M. P. Viero, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 771, L16 Extragalactic millimeter-wave point source catalog, number counts and statistics from 771 square degrees of the SPT-SZ Survey. L. M. Mocanu, T. M. Crawford, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 779, 61 SPT : Physical Conditions in the Interstellar Medium of a Strongly Lensed Dusty Star-forming Galaxy at z = 2.8. M. S. Bothwell, J. E. Aguirre, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 779, 67 Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing. J. D. Vieira, D. P. Marrone, et al. Nature, 495, 344 ALMA Observations of SPT-discovered, Strongly Lensed, Dusty, Star-forming Galaxies. Y.

6 Thomas M. Crawford, page 6 of 9 Hezaveh, D. P. Marrone, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 767, 132 ALMA Redshifts of Millimeter-selected Galaxies from the SPT Survey: The Redshift Distribution of Dusty Star-forming Galaxies. A. Weiß, C. de Breuck, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 767, 88 Constraints on Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum of the 2500-square degree SPT-SZ Survey. Z. Hou, C. L. Reichardt, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 782, 74 (2014). A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey. K. Story, C. L. Reichardt, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 779, 86 Bispectrum of the Sunyaev-Zel dovich Effect. S. Bhattacharya, D. Nagai, L. Shaw, T. Crawford, and G. Holder. The Astrophysical Journal, 760, 5 (2012). High-Redshift Cool-Core Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel dovich Effect in the South Pole Telescope Survey. D. R. Semler, R. Šuhada, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 761, 183 (2012). A Massive, Cooling-Flow-Induced Starburst in the Core of a Highly Luminous Galaxy Cluster. M. McDonald, M. Bayliss, et al. Nature, 488, 349, (2012). Redshifts, Sample Purity, and BCG Positions for the Galaxy Cluster Catalog from the first 720 Square Degrees of the South Pole Telescope Survey. J. Song, A. Zenteno, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 761, 22 (2012). Submillimeter Observations of Millimeter Bright Galaxies Discovered by the South Pole Telescope. T. R. Greve, J. D. Vieira, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 756, 101 (2012). SPT-CL J : A z = 1.32 evolved massive galaxy cluster in the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel dovich effect survey. B. Stalder, J. Ruel, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 763, 93 Weak-Lensing Mass Measurements of Five Galaxy Clusters in the South Pole Telescope Survey Using Magellan/Megacam. F. W. High, H. Hoekstra, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 758, 68 (2012). Galaxy clusters discovered via the Sunyaev-Zel dovich effect in the first 720 square degrees of the South Pole Telescope survey. C. L. Reichardt, B. Stalder, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 763, 127 A measurement of gravitational lensing of the microwave background using South Pole Telescope data. A. van Engelen, R. Keisler, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 756, 142 (2012). A Measurement of the Correlation of Galaxy Surveys with CMB Lensing Convergence Maps from the South Pole Telescope. L. E. Bleem, A. van Engelen, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 753, L9 (2012). Cosmological Constraints from Sunyaev-Zel dovich-selected Clusters with X-ray Observations

7 Thomas M. Crawford, page 7 of 9 in the First 178 Square Degrees of the South Pole Telescope Survey. B. A. Benson, T. de Haan, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 763, 147 Frequency Multiplexed SQUID Readout of Large Bolometer Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements. M. A. Dobbs, M. Lueker, et al. Review of Scientific Instruments, 83, (2012). Optical and thermal properties of ANL/KICP polarization sensitive bolometers for SPTpol. C. L. Chang, P. Ade, et al. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 167, 865 (2012). An overview of the SPTpol experiment. L. Bleem, P. Ade, et al. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 167, 859 (2012). Cosmic microwave background constraints on the duration and timing of reionization from the South Pole Telescope. O. Zahn, C. L. Reichardt, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 756, 65 (2012). A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies with two years of South Pole Telescope observations. C. L. Reichardt, L. Shaw, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 755, 70 (2012). The First Public Release of South Pole Telescope Data: Maps of a 95 deg 2 Field from 2008 Observations. K. K. Schaffer, T. M. Crawford, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 743, 90 (2011). A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope. R. Keisler, C. L. Reichardt, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 743, 28 (2011). South Pole Telescope Detections of the Previously Unconfirmed Planck Early SZ Clusters in the Southern Hemisphere. K. Story, K. A. Aird, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 735, L36 (2011). An SZ-selected Sample of the Most Massive Galaxy Clusters in the 2500-square-degree South Pole Telescope Survey. R. Williamson, B. A. Benson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 738, 139 (2011). Discovery and Cosmological Implications of SPT-CL J , the Most Massive Known Cluster at z > 1. R. J. Foley, K. Andersson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 731, 86 (2011). Improved Constraints on Cosmic Microwave Background Secondary Anisotropies from the Complete 2008 South Pole Telescope Data. E. Shirokoff, C. L. Reichardt, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 736, 61 (2011). SPT-CL J : A Massive z > 1 Galaxy Cluster Selected Via the Sunyaev-Zel dovich Effect with the South Pole Telescope. M. Brodwin, J. Ruel, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 721, 90 (2010). X-ray Properties of the First SZE-selected Galaxy Cluster Sample from the South Pole Telescope. K. Andersson, B. A. Benson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 738, 48 (2011). Optical Redshift and Richness Estimates for Galaxy Clusters Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole Telescope Observations. F. W. High, B.

8 Thomas M. Crawford, page 8 of 9 Stalder, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 723, 1736 (2010). Galaxy Clusters Selected with the Sunyaev-Zel dovich Effect from 2008 South Pole Telescope Observations. K. Vanderlinde, T. M. Crawford, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 722, 1180 (2010). A Method for Individual Source Brightness Estimation in Single- and Multi-band Data. T. M. Crawford, E. R. Switzer, W. L. Holzapfel, C. L. Reichardt, D. P. Marrone, and J. D. Vieira. The Astrophysical Journal, 718, 513 (2010). Extragalactic Millimeter-wave Sources in South Pole Telescope Survey Data: Source Counts, Catalog, and Statistics for an 87 Square-degree Field. J. D. Vieira, T. M. Crawford, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 719, 763 (2010). Measurements of Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies with the South Pole Telescope. M. Lueker, C. L. Reichardt, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 719, 1045 (2010). Angular Power Spectra of the Millimeter Wavelength Background Light from Dusty Star-forming Galaxies with the South Pole Telescope. N. R. Hall, L. Knox, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 718, 632 (2010). Sunyaev-Zel dovich Cluster Profiles Measured with the South Pole Telescope. T. Plagge, B. A. Benson, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 716, 1118 (2010). The South Pole Telescope. J. E. Carlstrom, P. A. R. Ade, et al. Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 123, 568 (2011). Galaxy Clusters Discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel dovich Effect Survey. Z. Staniszewski, P. A. R. Ade, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 701, 32 (2009). South Pole Telescope Optics. S. Padin, Z. Staniszewski, et al. Applied Optics, 47, 4418 (2008). Design and Fabrication of Absorber Coupled TES Microbolometers on Continuous Silicon-Nitride Windows. C. L. Chang, J. E. Carlstrom, et al. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 151, 245 (2008). Power Spectrum Sensitivity of Raster-scanned CMB Experiments in the Presence of 1/f Noise. T. Crawford. Physical Review D, 76, (2007). The Optical Performance of Frequency Selective Bolometers. T. Perera, T. Chen, et al. Applied Optics, 45, 7643 (2006). Spontaneous Isotropy Breaking: A Mechanism for CMB Multipole Alignments. C. Gordon, W. Hu, D. Huterer, and T. Crawford. Physical Review D, 72, (2005). The TopHat Experiment: A Balloon-borne Instrument for Mapping Millimeter and Submillimeter Emission. R. F. Silverberg, E. S. Cheng, et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 160, 59 (2005). A Bolometer Array for the Spectral Energy Distribution (SPEED) Camera. R. F. Silverberg, S. Ali, et al. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 520, 421 (2004). The Spectrum of Integrated Millimeter Flux of the Magellanic Clouds and 30 Doradus from TopHat and DIRBE Data. J. E. Aguirre, J. J. Bezaire, et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 596, 273

9 Thomas M. Crawford, page 9 of 9 (2003). Lightweight Long-hold-time Dewar. D. J. Fixsen, E. S. Cheng, T. M. Crawford, S. S. Meyer, G. W. Wilson, E. S. Oh, and E. H. Sharp. Review of Scientific Instruments, 72, 3112 (2001). Prelase Stabilization of Polarization State and Frequency in a Q-switched, Diode-Pumped, Nd:YAG Laser. T. Crawford, C. Lowrie, and J. R. Thompson. Applied Optics, 35, 5861 (1996).

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