Rate My Professor Eloy de Lera Acedo

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.