Lluis Galbany
ICE
Research Interests
Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) and
member of the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) since
September 2021.
PhD in Physics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2011
under the supervision of Dr. Ramon Miquel at the Institut de Física
d’Altes Energies (IFAE). Postdoctoral researcher at the Centro de
Astrofísica (CENTRA) in Lisbon from 2011 to 2013, Fondecyt fellow
working with Prof. Mario Hamuy at the Departamento de Astronomía of
Universidad de Chile from 2013 to 2016, Research Associate at the
Department of Physics and Astronomy of University of Pittsburgh from
2013 to 2019, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Department of
Theoretical and Cosmological Physics of Universidad de Granada from 2019
to 2021.
The topics of my research are concerned with supernova physics and
observational cosmology. I am involved in a number of leading large
wide-field surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the Dark Energy
Science Collaboration (DESC) of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time
(LSST), and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope science collaboration,
all of them trying to understand what is causing the current
acceleration of the expansion of the Universe through observations of
supernovae. In particular, I am interested in characterizing the local
environment of supernova explosions, and how their locations can provide
clues on both the properties of the progenitor stars and the physics of
the explosion. These will help improving the standardization of
supernova peak brightness and thus reducing systematic uncertainties in
the measurement of extragalactic distances. More recently, I am focused
on improving the determination of the current local expansion rate of
the Universe, the Hubble constant (H0), using near-infrared observations
of nearby type Ia supernovae.
Courses