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From 22 to 24 September 2025, the Lyman-Alpha Workshop took place in Barcelona, organized by Andreu Font-Ribera and Martine Lokken. The workshop focused on current and future analyses of DESI Lyman alpha forest data, including the development of new methodologies and models.

Lucía got her Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University of Sevilla and her Master’s in Particle and Astrophysics at the University of Granada. She will be working on the Lyman alpha forest with Andreu Font.

The seminar was aimed at a general public and was attended by over 60 participants, including undergraduate and high school students. The session lasted approximately one hour and will be available on the PICO YouTube channel.

During the week of April 15, 2025, Andreu Font delivered a talk at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics, presenting the latest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration.

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration use the largest 3D map of our universe ever made to track dark energy’s influence over the past 11 billion years.

Sindhu Sri Sravya Satyavolu obtained her PhD in Physics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Her thesis focused on the proximity zones of quasars during the epoch of reionization.

With 5,000 tiny robots in a mountaintop telescope, researchers can look 11 billion years into the past. The light from far-flung objects in space is just now reaching the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a project managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), enabling us to map our cosmos as it was in its youth and trace its growth to what we see today.

We have recently announced a job opportunity to join the COSMO-LYA team of IFAE in the Fall. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the data analysis of the Lyman alpha forest dataset of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument:

Martine Lokken has joined the the COSMO-LYA team as a postodoctoral researcher in the IFAE Observational Cosmology Group.

Laura Casas has joined the the COSMO-LYA team as a PhD student in the IFAE Observational Cosmology Group. Laura has a degree in mathematics by the Imperial College London and a Masters’ in Physics by the the The University of Edinburgh.