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]

References

1. ^ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/star/personnel/people/lahav.htm
2. ^ http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~lahav/Lahav-cv-14Dec08.pdf

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Name	Lahav,Ofer
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Date of birth	5 April 1959
Place of birth	Tiberias, Israel
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