Biography:Ofer Lahav

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Ofer Lahav

Born (1959-04-05) 5 April 1959 (age 65)
Tiberias, Israel
CitizenshipDual Israeli-British
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
  • Observational Cosmology
  • Dark Energy
  • Cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
  • Large spectroscopic and photometric redshift surveys
  • Neutrino Cosmology
  • Formation and evolution of galaxies
  • Statistical methods[citation needed]
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University of Cambridge
Ben-Gurion University
Tel Aviv University
ThesisAnisotropies in the Local Universe (1988)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Efstathiou[citation needed]
Donald Lynden-Bell[citation needed]
Other academic advisorsJacob Bekenstein
Doctoral studentsChris Lintott[1]
Websitewww.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapola

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. 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. Free to read
  2. 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. Bibcode2003Sci...299.1532B. https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0303180v1. 
  3. Lahav, Ofer (1988). Anisotropies in the local universe. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557212691. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.279690.
  4. 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. Bibcode2005MNRAS.362..505C. 
  5. 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. Bibcode2001MNRAS.328.1039C. 
  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=k8WShzLxoYYC&pg=PA297
  7. "New Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellows appointed" (in en-gb). https://royalsociety.org/news/2011/Leverhulme-Research-Fellows-appointed/.