New Member

New Member in the Cosmology group

October 4, 2023

Observational Cosmology Group

Laura Casas has just joined IFAE as a PhD student in the Observational Cosmology Group.

Laura has a degree in mathematics by the Imperial College London and a Masters’ in Physics by the the The University of Edinburgh. She will be working on Lyman alpha forests with Andreu Font.

Welcome, Laura!

Latest Group News

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 .

New Member

New member in the Cosmology Group

April 2, 2025

Tyann Dumerchat joined the Observational Cosmology group as a postdoctoral researcher

Instrumentation

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

March 13, 2025

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has reached a major milestone with the successful installation of the LSST Camera on its telescope.