It is a pleasure to announce that on 19 December 2024 (Thursday), starting at 16:00 in the Space Hall A410, Prof. Dr. Henk Hoekstra will give a lecture on the topic “Designing a weak lensing experiment from space”.

Henk Hoekstra is a professor at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. His main area of research is observational cosmology, with a particular focus on the study of dark matter and dark energy using weak gravitational lensing. Since 2011 he is a cosmology coordinator for Euclid, the ESA mission to study the nature of dark energy and many other aspects of our current cosmological paradigm.