Licia Verde

Licia Verde

Born 14 Oct 1971 (1971-10-14) (age 44)
Venice, Italy
Residence Spain
Citizenship Italian
Nationality Italian
Fields Cosmology, Physics, Astrophysics
Institutions University of Edinburgh
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Barcelona
University of Oslo
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater University of Padua
Doctoral advisor Alan F. Heavens
Other academic advisors Sabino Matarrese
Known for cosmic microwave background
large-scale-structure
Notable awards ISI highly cited researcher (2015) ; Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2012)

Licia Verde (born 1971, Venice, Italy) is an Italian cosmologist and theoretical physicist and currently ICREA [1] Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Barcelona [2] and a Professor II at the University of Oslo.[3] Her research interests include large-scale-structure, dark energy, inflation and the cosmic microwave background.

She received a Laurea degree in 1996 from University of Padua and a PhD in 2000 from the University of Edinburgh. She did postdoctoral study at Princeton University and joined the faculty of The University of Pennsylvania in 2003. From September 2007, Verde is an ICREA Professor at the ICCUB of the University of Barcelona. She joined the faculty of the University of Oslo as professor II in 2013. Verde is editor of the Physics of the Dark Universe Journal [4]

She is a highly cited[5] and prolific author [6] and known primarily for work on large-scale structure, analysis of the WMAP data and development of rigurous statistical tools to analyse surveys of the Universe.

Career

2000-2003. Research Associate, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA.
2003-2007. Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
2007-2009. Visiting Senior Research Fellow. Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA.
2007–Present. ICREA Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Barcelona, Spain.
2012-2013. Scientific Associate, CERN, Switzerland.
2013–Present. Professor II of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oslo, Norway.
2015-2016. Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, USA.

Awards

NASA Group Achievement Award (2004) for the results of the WMAP mission
NASA Group Achievement Award (2007) for the results of the WMAP mission [7]
European Research Council (ERC) award [8]
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2012) [9]
Radcliffe Fellow (2015)
ISI highly cited researcher (2015) [10]

References

External links

[1] [2]

  1. Home page
  2. official CV at Barcelona
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