Prof Eloy De Lera Acedo
Associate Professor
Biography
Eloy de Lera Acedo, PhD ’10, is a Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. Prof de Lera Acedo is the head of the Radio Astronomy and 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 REACH telescope and the 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
Prof 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. Prof 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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This theme focuses on observational studies of the unexplored Universe; from its very first moments, through the mysterious early epochs when the Cosmos became the complex realm of celestial objects we know it to be.