Alexie Leauthaud

Alexie Leauthaud is a Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz. She studies dark matter, dark energy, galaxies, and the formation of the large scale structure in the Universe. She currently serves as co-spokesperson for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). She is also P.I of the Merian survey, a program that is using 60 nights on the Blanco telescope in Chile to study the nature of dark matter in dwarf galaxies. Her work has been recognised by a number of awards. She is a 2016 European Research Council (ERC) awardee, a 2017 Packard fellow for Science and Engineering, a 2018 Sloan fellow, and a 2018 recipient of an Early Career award from the Department of Energy.