Background
Lahav, Ofer was born on April 5, 1959 in Tiberias, Israel. Son of Ephraim and Rebecca (Sandak) Lahav.
Lahav, Ofer was born on April 5, 1959 in Tiberias, Israel. Son of Ephraim and Rebecca (Sandak) Lahav.
Lahav studied Physics at Tel-Aviv University (Bachelor of Science, 1980), Physics at Ben-Gurion University (Master of Science , 1985) and earned his Doctor of Philosophy (1988) in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge, where he was later a Member of Staff at the Institute of Astronomy (1990-2003) and a Fellow of Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge.
His research area is observational Cosmology. He served as the Head of Astrophysics (University College London) 2004-2011, as Vice-Dean () of University College London"s Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2011-2015, and as Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society 2010-2012. Lahav co-chairs the Science Committee of the international Dark Energy Survey, and he holds a European Council (European Research Council) Advanced Grant on "Testing the Dark Energy Paradigm" (TESTDE programme).
Lahav"s research is focused on cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, in particular large galaxy surveys.
To date (2016) Lahav has co-authored over 200 research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and he is a Thomson Inter-Services Intelligence highly cited author
Lahav is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (Fellow of the Institute of Physics ), and a Member of the International Astronomical Union.
Married Shimrit Ginott, August 14, 1984.