Ofer Lahav

Ofer Lahav is Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL). His research area is observational Cosmology. He served as the Head of Astrophysics (UCL) 2004-2011, as Vice-Dean (Research) of UCL's Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2011-2015, and as Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society 2010-2012. Lahav co-chairs 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, Cambridge.

Research

Lahav's research is focused on cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, in particular large galaxy surveys. To date (2016) Lahav has co-authored over 200 research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and he is a Thomson ISI highly cited author.

Awards and honours

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. Other awards include:

• European Research Council Advanced Grant (2012-2017)
• Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2011-2012)
• PPARC Senior Research Fellowship (2003-2006)
• RAS Group Award to the 2dFGRS team (2008)
• Rosseland Lecture, Oslo (2005)
• Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture, UCL (2004)
• Royal Astronomical Society Gerald Whitrow Lecture (2014)

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