Interviewing Licia Verde: a distinguished career in precision cosmology

Interview to cosmologist Licia Verde, in the new website section "Research" of the University of Barcelona, describing her research steps, her arrival to the University and the ICCUB, her cosmological interests and what she is currently doing.

Licia Verde  is an ICREA professor since 2007, and belongs to the Cosmology and Large Scale Structure research group at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences. Cosmology is the field of astrophysics that studies the origin, evolution and composition of the universe. Her group focuses on finding explanations for some of the still unanswered questions of cosmology, such as what dark energy is, or what originated the universe’s primordial perturbations.