Biography:Ofer Lahav
Ofer Lahav | |
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| Born | 5 April 1959 Tiberias, Israel |
| Citizenship | Dual Israeli-British |
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| Institutions | University College London University of Cambridge Ben-Gurion University Tel Aviv University |
| Thesis | Anisotropies in the Local Universe (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Efstathiou[citation needed] Donald Lynden-Bell[citation needed] |
| Other academic advisors | Jacob Bekenstein |
| Doctoral students | Chris Lintott[1] |
| Website | www |
Ofer Lahav FRAS FInstP 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).[2]
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[3] 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.[4] [5] (As of 2016) Lahav has co-authored over 200[citation needed] research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and he is a Thomson ISI highly cited author.[6] His doctoral students include Chris Lintott.[1]
Awards and honours
Lahav is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS),[when?] 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) [citation needed]
- Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2011-2012)[7]
- PPARC Senior Research Fellowship (2003-2006)[citation needed]
- RAS Group Award to the 2dFGRS team (2008)[citation needed]
- Rosseland Lecture, Oslo (2005)[citation needed]
- Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture, UCL (2004)[citation needed]
- Royal Astronomical Society Gerald Whitrow Lecture (2014)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lintott, Christopher John (2006). Analyses of the early stages of star formation. discovery.ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 926299378. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.722217.
- ↑ Bridle, Sarah L.; Lahav, Ofer; Ostriker, Jeremiah P.; Steinhardt, Paul J. (2003). "Precision Cosmology? Not Just Yet". Science 299 (5612): 1532–1533. doi:10.1126/science.1082158. Bibcode: 2003Sci...299.1532B. https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0303180v1.
- ↑ Lahav, Ofer (1988). Anisotropies in the local universe. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557212691. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.279690.
- ↑ Cole, Shaun; Percival, Will J.; Peacock, John A.; Norberg, Peder; Baugh, Carlton M.; Frenk, Carlos S.; Baldry, Ivan; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss et al. (2005). "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: power-spectrum analysis of the final data set and cosmological implications". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 362 (2): 505–534. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09318.x. ISSN 00358711. Bibcode: 2005MNRAS.362..505C.
- ↑ Colless, Matthew; Dalton, Gavin; Maddox, Steve; Sutherland, Will; Norberg, Peder; Cole, Shaun; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bridges, Terry et al. (2001). "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spectra and redshifts". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 328 (4): 1039–1063. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04902.x. ISSN 00358711. Bibcode: 2001MNRAS.328.1039C.
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=k8WShzLxoYYC&pg=PA297
- ↑ "New Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellows appointed" (in en-gb). https://royalsociety.org/news/2011/Leverhulme-Research-Fellows-appointed/.
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