The Spanish Astronomical Society awards a thesis carried out at the UB
José Luis Bernal received the 16th SEA Award to the Spanish Doctoral Thesis on Astronomy and Astrophysics, an award the Spanish Astronomical Society gives to doctoral theses that can have the highest impact in the present and future in the field of astrophysics.
José Luis Bernal received the 16th SEA Award to the Spanish Doctoral Thesis on Astronomy and Astrophysics, an award the Spanish Astronomical Society gives to doctoral theses that can have the highest impact in the present and future in the field of astrophysics.
Titled Cosmology on the edge of lambda-cold dark matter, the thesis gathers papers published in science journals and was conducted in the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB) under the supervision of researcher Licia Verde.
The awarded research covers three main topics: discrepancies in the Hubble constant between direct measurements and inferred values obtained from observations assuming the standard cosmological model (LCDM); the role of primordial black holes as candidates for black matter or seeds for supermassive black holes; and the potential and optimal strategies to optimize the performance of future experiments mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe in order to analyse the standard model and measure potential deviations.
José Luis Bernal is currently conducting a postdoctoral stay in Johns Hopkins University (United States).