New Member

New member in the Cosmology Group

October 5, 2022

Observational Cosmology Group

Jonás Chaves has joined the Observational Cosmology Group at IFAE as Postdoc researcher.

Jonás obtained his PhD at CEFCA in 2017, he was a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory (2017-2020) and at the Donostia International Physics Center (2020-2022).

His interests cover a broad range of topics in cosmology and astrophysics: galaxy-halo connection, cross-correlation of large-scale structure and cosmic microwave background, photometric redshifts, and active galactic nuclei.

Welcome, Jonás.

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