Licia Verde - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- PhD in 2001; since 2007 ICREA professor1 in Barcelona
- Scientific Director of “Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics” (JCAP), since June 2020
- Scientific Director of “Instituto de ciencias del Cosmos” of the University of Barcelona, since 2024
Honors and awards include:
- 2024 Physics Medal, Real Sociedad Espanola de Fisica RSEF/BBVA
- 2021 Premio Rey Jaime I de investigacion Basica
- 2019 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture by the European Astronomical Society
- 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with the WMAP team - 2012 Gruber Cosmology prize (with the WMAP team)
- ERC consolidator grant 2016
- ERC starting grant 2009
Major international projects include:
- Anglo Australian two degrees galaxy redshift survey (data analysis team)
- Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) NASA mission (science team) - SDSSIII BOSS collaboration (science team)
- DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) membership
Service include:
- ArXiv science advisory board (Dec 2015– 2023), chair (2019-2021), ArXiv science council Chair (2023–present), arXiv Advisory board (2023–present); ADS users group (2022-present); Scientific Organising Committee of more than 20 international conferences, career mentoring at different career levels, various international evaluation boards and committees.
Dissemination: 90 plenary invited talks colloquia and seminars over the past 10 years (examples here), at least two outreach non-technical events per year.
Publications: 246 Publications in peer reviewed high-impact journals, total citation count 74690, h- index 85 (from Astrophysics Data System). Ranked number 5 of best female scientists in Spain across all disciplines in 2022 (according to Microsoft Academic).
Supervision: 7 Master students, 1 undergraduate project, 11 PhD students (of which 8 defended al- ready), 23 postdocs (of which 2 are on-going, and 10 hold permanent faculty positions)
Other interests: Open Access, Open Science, Science Diplomacy, Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
Featured in PBS TV series “Closer to Truth” (In English) and appearance in “Las leyes de la termodinamica” a film by Mateo Gil, in cinemas April 2018 and on Netflix.
