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Jean-Paul Kneib is a Full Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Astrophysics Laboratory. His primary research interests lie in cosmology, particularly in the fields of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and gravitational lensing. He works on various international projects, including SDSS-IV eBOSS, which observes over 1.5 million galaxies to measure the expansion history of the universe, and the DESI collaboration, aiming to observe 40 million galaxies. He is also involved in exploiting Hubble Frontier Fields data to probe the early universe through strong lensing clusters. Over his career, Kneib has led multiple significant research initiatives and was a member of several prestigious collaborations within the astrophysics community, contributing to an expansive body of work comprising more than 351 publications and receiving approximately 24,300 citations. He has been honored with an ERC Advanced Grant, reflecting his prolific contribution to advancing cosmological research.
EPFL • Lausanne
Leading research in astrophysics and cosmology.
CNRS, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille •
CNRS •
Department of Astronomy, Caltech •
La Silla Observatory, ESO •
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