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Licia Verde receives the Lodewikj Woltjer Lecture award at EWASS

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The cosmologist and theoretical astrophysicist Licia Verde received the Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture yesterday. Awarded by the European Astronomical Society (EAS), the award was presented within the framework of the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS), which takes place in Lyon from June 24 to 28.

Licia Verde is an ICREA researcher at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB) and the organization has highlighted her work in cosmology, especially in the study of the cosmic microwave background and the structure of the universe on a large scale.

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