Rate My Professor Eloy de Lera Acedo

Professor Eloy de Lera Acedo is Professor of Radio Astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. He serves as Head of the Cavendish Radio Astronomy and Cosmology research group, STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow, and Fellow of Selwyn College, where he is also College Lecturer in Physics. De Lera Acedo obtained his MSc in Telecommunications Engineering in 2005 and PhD in 2010 from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the latter with visiting student status at the University of Cambridge, both awarded summa cum laude. His academic career at Cambridge commenced in 2007 as Research Assistant, followed by Research Associate (2010-2012), Senior Research Associate (2013-2018), Principal Research Associate (2018-2021), and Group Leader since 2018. Prior to Cambridge, he held a Research Assistant position at the National Astronomical Observatory of Spain from 2006 to 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society since 2022 and received the Downing College Bye-Fellowship in 2015.

De Lera Acedo's research specializes in 21-cm cosmology, focusing on observations of the redshifted 21-cm hydrogen line to study the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn, and Epoch of Reionization during the formation of the first celestial objects. He develops advanced radio instrumentation, antennas, electromagnetic modeling, and techniques for radio astronomy and ultra-fast digital communications. As Principal Investigator, he leads the REACH telescope and CosmoCube space mission proposals. He sits on the Executive Board of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) experiment and contributes to Square Kilometre Array (SKA) development activities at Cambridge. His accolades include the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship awarded in 2021 and an ERC Consolidator Grant for the REACH_21 project. With over 300 publications garnering more than 6,000 citations, notable works include 'The Aperture Array Verification System 1' (Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021), 'Marginal Bayesian Statistics Using Masked Autoregressive Flows' (2022), and recent analyses such as 'Results from the investigation of temporal discontinuity in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array data' (2026). In addition to supervising PhD students, he leads the MPhil in Data Intensive Science module, heads Part IA Physics Laboratory classes, and co-founded Cambridge Electromagnetic Technology Ltd in 2019 to apply astronomy-inspired technologies commercially.