Ofer Lahav
| Ofer Lahav | |
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| Born |
5 April 1959 Tiberias, Israel |
| Residence | UK |
| Citizenship | Dual Israeli-British |
| Fields | Observational Cosmology |
| Institutions |
University College London University of Cambridge Ben-Gurion University Tel Aviv University |
| Thesis | Anisotropies in the Local Universe (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor |
George Efstathiou Donald Lynden-Bell |
| Other academic advisors | Jacob Bekenstein |
| Notable awards |
European Research Council Advanced Grant (2012-2017)
Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture, UCL (2004) |
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Website www | |
Professor Ofer Lahav is Perren Chair of Astronomy and Vice-Dean (Research) at the MAPS Faculty at University College London. He served as the Head of Astrophysics (UCL) 2004-2011, and as Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society 2010-2012. Currently Lahav heads the Science Committee of the international Dark Energy Survey, and he holds a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on "Testing the Dark Energy Paradigm" (TESTDE programme).
Education
Lahav studied Physics at Tel-Aviv University (BSc, 1980), Physics at Ben-Gurion University (MSc, 1985) and earned his Ph.D. (1988) in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge, where he was later a Member of Staff at the Institute of Astronomy (1990-2003) and a Fellow of St. Catharine's College.
Research
Lahav's research is focused on cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, in particular large galaxy surveys. To date Lahav has co-authored over 170 research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and he is a Thomson ISI highly cited author.
Lahav is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), and a Member of the International Astronomical Union.
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