Philip Mauskopf received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Experimental Astrophysics with Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K., where he helped to start a world-leading group in the area of astronomical instrumentation for terahertz frequencies. He is currently a Professor with Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. His research interests include experimental cosmology, in particular designing and building new types of instruments for measuring signals from the most distant objects in the universe, solid state physics, atmospheric science, quantum communications, and cryoptography.