Ofer Lahav
Ofer Lahav | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 April 1959 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Citizenship | Dual British- Israeli |
| Known for | Dark Energy |
| Awards | PPARC Senior Research Fellowship (2003-2006) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2008-2013) RAS Group Award to the 2dFGRS team (2008) Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture, UCL (2004) Director of the Cumberland Lodge conference, UCL (2005) Rosseland Lecture, Oslo (2005) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | 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 |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | George Efstathiou Donald Lynden-Bell |
| Other academic advisors | Jacob Bekenstein |
Professor Ofer Lahav (born Tiberias, Israel 1959) is the Perren Chair of Astronomy and Head of Astrophysics at University College London.[1]
He studied Physics at Tel-Aviv University (B.Sc., 1980), Physics at Ben-Gurion University (M.Sc., 1985) (supervisor: Jacob Bekenstein) and earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 1988.
Among his major research interests are Cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. To date Lahav has written over 160 research articles in refereed journals and is Thomson ISI highly cited author.
Lahav is also Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), Member of the American Astronomical Society, Member of the International Astronomical Union and Member of the Astronomical Society of India.[2]