Ofer Lahav#
| Membership Number: | 4987 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapola |
| ORCID: | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1134-9035 |
| Twitter: | @Ofer_Lahav |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - Present Perren Professor of Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London (UCL), UK
- 2011 - 2015 Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, UCL
- 2004 - 2011 Head of Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL
- 2000 - 2003 Reader in Cosmology, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1998 - 1999 on leave as Associate Professor, Hebrew University, Israel
- 1992 - 2003 Official Fellow, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1990 - 2000 Senior Assistant in Research, Assistant Director of Research, Lecturer, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
- 1988 - 1991 Research Fellow, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- Neutrino Cosmology
- Statistical methods for Big Data
- Large spectroscopic and photometric redshift surveys
- Formation and evolution of galaxies
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Royal Astronomical Society Award: Gerald Whitrow Lecture
- 2013 Visiting Professorship, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2012 - 2018 ERC Advanced Grant holder (TESTDE)
- 2012 - Visiting Professorship, University of Kent
- 2011 - 2012 Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship
- 2010 Wempe Lecture (on the occasion of the Wempe Award to Y. Hoffman), Potsdam
- 2009 Erna & Jakob Michael Visiting Professorship, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2008 - 2013 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- 2008 - Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- 2008 Royal Astronomical Society Group Award to the 2dFGRS team
- 2005 Rosseland Lecture, Oslo University
- 2004 Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture, UCL
- 2003 - 2006 PPARC Senior Research Fellowship
- 1985 - 1988 Isaac Newton Studentship, Cambridge
- 1985 - 1986 Rothschild Fellowship
