Licia Verde

Licia Verde is a cosmologist,  currently ICREA Professor at the Instituto de ciencias del cosmos of the  University of Barcelona. Her research interests include large-scale structure, dark energy, inflation and the cosmic microwave background. She received her  degree fron Universita di Padova (Italy) a PhD  from the University of Edinburgh. She did postdoctoral study at Rutgers University and  Princeton University  and  was faculty of The University of Pennsylvania. She was part of the WMAP science team has worked on large scale structure surveys such as the degree field galaxy redshift survey,  Sloan digital sky survey  and now the dark energy spectroscopic instrument collaboration.