Licia Verde

Licia Verde (born 1971, Venice, Italy) is an Italian cosmologist and theoretical physicist and currently ICREAProfessor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Barcelona. Her research interests include large-scale-structure, dark energy, inflation and the cosmic microwave background. She received a Laurea degree in 1996 from University of Padua and a PhD in 2000 from the University of Edinburgh. She did postdoctoral study at Princeton University and joined the faculty of The University of Pennsylvania in 2003. From September 2007, Verde is an ICREA Professor at the ICCUB of the University of Barcelona. She was a Professor II at the University of Oslo during the period 2013-2016. Verde is editor of the Physics of the Dark Universe JournalShe is a highly cited and prolific authorand known primarily for work on large-scale structure, analysis of the WMAP data and development of rigurous statistical tools to analyse surveys of the Universe.

2000-2003. Research Associate, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA.
2003-2007. Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
2007-2009. Visiting Senior Research Fellow. Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, USA.
2007 – present. ICREA Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Barcelona, Spain.
2012-2013. Scientific Associate, CERN, Switzerland.
2013–2016. Professor II of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oslo, Norway.
2015-2016. Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, USA.

NASA Group Achievement Award (2004) for the results of the WMAP mission
NASA Group Achievement Award (2007) for the results of the WMAP mission
European Research Council (ERC) (2009) ERC starting award
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2012)
Radcliffe Fellow (2015)
ISI highly cited researcher (2015)

European Research Council (2016) ERC Consolidator award