Ofer Lahav

Ofer Lahav FRAS FInstP
Born	(1959-04-05) 5 April 1959 (age 65) Tiberias, Israel
Citizenship	Dual Israeli-British
Awards	George Darwin Lecture (2020) Royal Astronomical Society Award, Gerald Whitrow Lecture (2014) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2008–2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Observational Cosmology Dark energy Cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy Large spectroscopic and photometric redshift surveys Neutrino Cosmology Formation and evolution of galaxies Statistical methods[citation needed]
Institutions	University College London University of Cambridge Ben-Gurion University Tel Aviv University
Thesis	Anisotropies in the Local Universe (1988)
Doctoral advisor	George Efstathiou[citation needed] Donald Lynden-Bell[citation needed]
Other academic advisors	Jacob Bekenstein
Notable students	Chris Lintott[1]
Website	www.ucl.ac.uk/astrophysics/professor-ofer-lahav

Ofer Lahav (Hebrew: עופר להב) FRAS FInstP is Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL), Vice-Dean (International) of the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS) and Co-Director of the STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science. His research area is Observational Cosmology, in particular probing Dark Matter and Dark Energy. His work involves Machine Learning for Big Data.

Lahav served as the UCL Head of Astrophysics (2004–2011), Vice-Dean (Research) of UCL's Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (2011–2015), and as Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society (2010–2012). He is one of the founders of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), and he co-chaired the international DES Science Committee from inception until 2016. He chairs both the DES:UK and DESI:UK consortia, as well as the DES Advisory Board. He previously served as a member of the STFC Science Board (2016–2019). From 2012 to 2018, Lahav held a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on "Testing the Dark Energy Paradigm" (TESTDE programme).