Research Group

ICC Physical cosmology group (visit our group latest news on facebook at physics.lss)

The ICC Physical Cosmology group is composed by:

Faculty: Hector Gil-Marin, Raul Jimenez, Licia Verde

Senior members: Nils Shoneberg

PhD Students:  Pablo Tejerina, Pedro Tarancon, Leonid Sarieddine, Adriana Nadal, Emmanuelle Fondi, Sergi Novell 

Master Students: 

Cosmology has now a standard model -the so called LCDM model- which, with only a handful of parameters, can describe the evolution Universe over the past 13.7 Gyrs. The LCDM model has many deep connections with fundamental physics issues (particle physics, high-energy physics, gravitation etc.). While the numerical values of the model’s parameters are determined with unprecedented precision, we still have limited insights on the physical meaning of some of these parameters values. This model leaves many unanswered questions such as: what is dark energy? what is the origin of primordial perturbations? are there indications for deviations for the model which may indicate our lack of understanding of the Universe?

Our main research interest is making the connection between cosmological observations and the physics behind the standard cosmological model, hoping to shed some light on the “open questions” in cosmology. Our collective expertise ranges from stellar and galaxy evolution to inflation model building.

Past students and postdocs with which I have been fully or partially involved in their supervision: where did they go?

Christian Reichardt (SURF student at Caltech -> now tenured faculty at University of Melbourne) 

Ben Panter (-> postdoc MPA/Munich then CEO Blackford Analysis)

Rita Tojeiro (-> postdoc Portsmouth UK; now tenured faculty St Andrews)

Chris Power ( tenured faculty at University of Western Australia )

Carolyn Sealfon (->faculty at West Chester University, PA, USA, then at Princeton , NJ, USA)

Viviana Acquaviva (-> postodc Princeton, Rutgers; now tenured faculty at CUNY, NY, USA)

Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo (->postdoc at MPA, Germany; now tenured faculty at IAC, Canary Islands)

Anastasios Avgoustidis (->postdoc at DAMTP, Cambridge UK; now tenured faculty at Nottingham)

Carmelita Carbone (-> postdoc and INAF Fellow at Milan; now tenured faculty at Milan University)

Michele Moresco (-> tenured faculty at University of Bologna)

Zach Berta (Visiting student, now tenured faculty at University of Colorado, Boulder)

Beth Reid (-> Hubble Fellow, Berkeley, USA)

Hector Gil (-> postdoc Porthsmuth, UK, postdoc IAP, now tenured faculty Barcelona)

Ben Hoyle (-> postdoc at Excellence cluster, Munich DE)

Christian Wagner (-> postdoc at MPA, Munich, DE)

Roland de Putter (-> staff at JPL/Caltech USA)

Jorge Noreña (-> postdoc at Geneva University, CH,  now tenured faculty in Chile)

Joaquin Prieto (senior staff at Universidad de Chile)

Emilio Bellini (-> Beecroft Fellow Oxford)

Francesca Fragkoudi  (-> PhD Marseille, Postdoc MPA; now tenured faculty University of Durham)

Fergus Simpson (-> alpha-I startup)

Alvise Raccanelli (-> CERN senior fellow -> now tenured faculty University of Padova)

Daniele Bertacca (--> now tenured faculty University of Padova)

David Figueruelo (MsC student, now PhD student University of Salamanca)

Jose Luis Bernal (-> Allan C. and Dorothy H. Davis Fellow, John Hopkins University, USA, now tenured faculty IFCA/Santander) 

Nicola Bellomo (-> research associate Physics Dept. University of Texas, Austin, USA -> now senior researcher Padova)

Ali Rida Kahlifeh (-> postdoc at IAP, Paris)

Ben Kalus (--> Postdoc at KAIST) 

David Valcin (--> Postdoc Berkeley) 

Samuel Brieden (--> Postdoc Edinburgh)

The group is one of the nodes of the COSMOCLASSIC collaboration; the other nodes are: London Imperial College (UK), Paris IAP (FR), Universita di Padova (IT). Collaborations with and visits to the other nodes are encouraged. We have regular collaboration meetings to foster interactions, common projects and exchange of ideas.