Congratulations to Will Percival on being named one of the 2025 Excellence in Science Research Awards winners!ÌýÌý
Inaugurated in 2021, the Excellence in Science Research Awards recognize outstanding research accomplishments by Science faculty members. Each year, three researchers from across the Faculty of Science are chosen to be celebrated. One tenure-track faculty, one mid-career tenured faculty (up to 10 years post-tenure), and one senior-career tenured faculty (more than 10 years post-tenure).ÌýÌý
These awards draw attention to the research area of each recipient, recognize excellence at the University, and strengthen subsequent nominations for external research awards.
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It is an honour for the research we do to be recognized in this way. The amazing results that we have obtained over the last few years are thanks to the talented team including undergraduate project students, graduate students and postdocs here in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, as well as the international collaborations of which we are members.
Will Percival holds the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Distinguished Chair in Astrophysics within the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science. He is an observational cosmologist specializing in understanding the universe using surveys of the positions of galaxies. He has developed and applied innovative techniques that now form a cornerstone of our understanding of the universe on the largest scales.ÌýÌý
Percival currently helps to manage two large international collaborations. He is a spokesperson for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), coordinating the science that comes from this project. DESI is an international undertakingÌýcomprisedÌýof hundreds of scientists around the globe, with project managementÌýlocatedÌýat the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US. He is also one of four core-science coordinators for the Euclid satellite mission. Euclid is a billion-dollar mission led by the European Space Agency and launched in 2023 to understand Dark Energy.