New Member
New member in the Cosmology Group
October 5, 2022
Observational Cosmology GroupSantiago Avila has joined the Observational Cosmology group at IFAE as Postdoc researcher.
Santiago works on Large Scale Structure of the Universe (LSS), both using simulation and data from galaxy surveys. He has been involved in DES, eBOSS, Euclid, SKA and DESI. Currently, he is co-chair of the LSS group of the Dark Energy Survey.
He did his PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, then moved to Portsmouth (UK) for a postdoc. He then went back to UAM with a MSCA fellowship
Welcome, Santiago!
New results
Andreu Font Presents Latest DESI BAO Results at Harvard
May 5, 2025
During the week of April 15, 2025, Andreu Font delivered a talk at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics, presenting the latest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration. His presentation, titled “How Constant is the Cosmological Constant? Challenging the ΛCDM Model with New Measurements from the DESI Collaboration ”, explored how recent data may question key assumptions of the standard cosmological model.
The talk is available to watch online .