Ofer Lahav — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL).
Vice-Dean (International) of the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS).
Co-Director of the STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science.
Co-founder of the Dark Energy Survey (DES).
Research focuses on Observational Cosmology, probing Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
Chairs the DES:UK, DESI:UK consortia, and the DES Advisory Board.
Earned his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 1988.

Biography

Ofer Lahav is the Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL), where he also serves as Vice-Dean (International) of the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS). Additionally, he is the Co-Director of the STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science. His academic journey includes studying physics at Tel-Aviv University (BSc, 1980) and Ben-Gurion University (MSc, 1985), before earning his Ph.

D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge in 1988.