- Dr. Licia Verde has been an ICREA professor at the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics of the University of Barcelona since 2007, and she is a member of the Cosmology and Large-Scale Structures research group at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), specifically focusing on Observational Cosmology.
- Her team seeks to find explanations for some of the open questions in cosmology, such as what is dark energy? Or what caused the primordial perturbations of the universe?
- She is editor and Scientific director of Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP).
- She has received several prizes and distinctions along her career, among which we highlight the Rei Jaume I Prize for Basic Research in 2021 or the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with the WMAP team.
- She obtained her PhD as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, UK.
Licia Verde
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