SciPol: Science from the large scale cosmic microwave background polarization structure

Welcome to the ERC SciPol website. The project aims at developing novel data analysis for upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background experiments such as the Simons Observatory (see pictures of the on-going deployment below). The large volume of complex data sets calls for new approaches in terms of statistics, implementation, numerical efficiency, and astrophysical/instrumental modeling.

Our team is located at the Astroparticle & Cosmology (APC) laboratory in Paris, France.

Above is a subset of the SciPol team — a picture taken in Oct 2025 in front of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), at the end of the workshop CMB-France 2025.