Ofer Lahav
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| Born | 5 April 1959 Tiberias, Israel |
| Residence | UK |
| 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 Donald Lynden-Bell |
| Other academic advisors | Jacob Bekenstein |
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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[citation needed] 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)[citation needed]
- Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2011-2012)[citation needed]
- 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
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2015
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Cosmologists
- English astronomers
- English physicists
- Fellows of the Institute of Physics
- Astrophysics
- Astrochemistry
- Academics of University College London
- Tel Aviv University alumni
- People from Tiberias
