New Member

New member in the Cosmology Group

October 5, 2022

Observational Cosmology Group

Santiago 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!

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