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| Membership Number: | 7150 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2601-8770 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Scientific Director of Journal of Cosmology and astroparticle physics (JCAP)
- 2007 - present ICREA professor, Barcelona
- 2013 - 2016 Professor II 3, Institute of theoretical astrophysics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- 2015 - 2016 Harvard University Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, USA
- 2012 - 2013 CERN Theory division, Associate, CH, (Sabbatical year)
- 2003 - 2007 Faculty, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- 2002 - 2003 Chandra Fellow and Spitzer Fellow, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Prince- ton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
- 2001 - 2002 Research Associate, Physics and Astronomy department, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
- 2000 - 2001 Research Associate, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Cosmic microwave background
- Large-scale structure
- Galaxy surveys
- Cosmology
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Physics Medal, Real Sociedad Espan ̃ola de F ́ısica RSEF/BBVA
- 2021 Premio Rey Jaime I de investigacion Basica "recognize people whose work is highly significant and has been developed mostly in Spain"
- 2019 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture by the European Astronomical Society, honours astronomers of out-standing scientific distinction
- 2018 Premi Nacionals de Recerca; awarded by the Generalitat and Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, recognizes the researcher who has recently contributed significantly internationally to the advancement of a scientific discipline in any of its fields: human and social sciences, life sciences and health, engineering and technology and experimental sciences
- 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with the WMAP team
- 2017 Narcis Monturiol Medal “to honour individuals and organisations that made outstanding contributions to scientific and technological development in Catalunya”
- 2016 ERC Consolidator grant
- 2015 Thompson Reuters ISI Highly cited researcher –The top 1% most cited researchers in the field
- 2015 Elected to Young Academy of Europe
- 2012 Gruber Cosmology prize with the WMAP team
- 2012 Rosenblum lecture,“Connecting Cosmology to fundamental physics: examples”, Hebrew University
- 2010 Svein Rosseland lecture, “Big questions about the Universe”, Oslo University
- 2009 ERC starting grant
- 2007 NASA group achievement award for the results of the WMAP mission
- 2004 Niels Bohr lecture “Cosmology from the Cosmic microwave background and galaxy surveys”, Niels Bohr institute, Copenhagen
- 2004 NASA group achievement award for the results of the WMAP mission
- 2002 Chandra Fellowship
- 2002 Spitzer fellowship
- 1997 Amelia Earhart Fellowship of Zonta International foundation
- 1997 Prize “Premio STET Guglielmo Reis Romoli” from Gruppo STET
- 1997 Foundation Blanceflor-Boncompagni Ludovisi nee’ Bildt Award
