Héctor Gil-Marín receives the BBVA Foundation Young Theoretical Physics Researcher Award

2021-12-21 09:00:00
Héctor Gil-Marín receives the BBVA Foundation Young Theoretical Physics Researcher Award
The researcher of the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC – Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) Héctor Gil-Marín has received the Young Theoretical Physics Researcher Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF) and the BBVA Foundation. Dr. Gil-Marín was awarded last Tuesday, 14 December, during the double ceremony that took place to present the 2020 and 2021 awards. 

The jury highlighted Dr. Gil-Marín’s outstanding contributions to the analysis and interpretation of galaxy mapping, advancing our understanding of the accelerated Universe, and being one of the most brilliant researchers in the field of cosmology of his generation.

Dr. Gil-Marín was a member of the BOSS and eBOSS international collaborations and is a current researcher of DESI, where he plays a leading role in the survey mapping. He actively participated in the analysis of BOSS and eBOSS data, which resulted in the recently published largest three-dimensional map of the distribution of galaxies. His research focuses on the large-scale structure of the Universe, and he intends to answer one of the most fundamental questions in cosmology for the past 20 years, what drives the late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe. From 2018, he holds a Junior Leader 'La Caixa' fellowship at the ICCUB.

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