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Verde, Licia
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Originally from Venice (Italy) Licia Verde studied physics as an undergraduate at the Universita' di Padova. She obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK) sponsored by the Marie Curie grant from the EU, and then moved for research assistant positions at Princeton University and at Rutgers University (USA) . At Princeton she held a Chandra postdoctoral fellowship and the Spitzer Postdoctoral fellowship and she entered the WMAP science team. She spent 4 years as faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and moved to Barcelona as ICREA professor on September 2007.
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Research Interests
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I am interested in Cosmology, which is the study of the origin, evolution and composition of the universe. One of the recent discoveries in cosmology is that more than 70% of what makes up the universe is not even matter, but something that suggests that some energy is associated with the nothingness of vacuum. This component has been dubbed "dark energy". Dark energy may as well be one of the major problems in physics today and is motivating a host of future and planned experiments. I study the “large-scale distribution of galaxies” and the statistical properties of the heat left over from the big bang to shed some light on the universe composition, including the dark energy component, and its history.
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KeyWords
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Cosmology: large-scale structure of the Universe, interpretation of cosmological data, connection between theory and observations
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