Ofer Lahav

Ofer Lahav
Ofer Lahav
Born 5 April 1959 (1959-04-05) (age 52)
Tiberias, Israel
Residence UK
Citizenship Dual British- Israeli
Nationality Israeli
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
Known for Dark Energy
Notable 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)

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]

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