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The Cavendish Laboratory
 

Biography

Eloy de Lera Acedo, PhD'10, is an Associate Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, UK. Dr de Lera Acedo is the head of the Radio Cosmology research group within Cavendish Astrophysics. He leads development activities at Cambridge for the upcoming SKA radio telescope  and sits on the Executive Board of the HERA experiment . He is the international PI of the current REACH telescope  and the future CosmoCube space mission, both aiming at the detection and study of the redshifted 21-cm line from the infant Universe (Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Re-ionization).

Research

Dr de Lera Acedo's research interests include the study of the early universe, at the time when the first celestial objects were formed (Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Re-ionization) via observations of the redshifted 21-cm line from hydrogen. Dr de Lera Acedo has as well an interest in the development of technology and techniques for radioastronomy and ultra fast digital communications, with a special focus on electromagnetic theory, technology and numerical methods. 

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Associate Professor in Experimental Radio Cosmology
Head of Cavendish Radio Cosmology Group
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow
Head of Class Part II Physics Laboratory

Contact Details

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Room G09
Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
Cavendish Laboratory
University of Cambridge
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0HE
+44 (0)1223337365

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Astrophysics