Professor Mike Hudson appointed to Euclid Consortium Board
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Prof
Mike
Hudson
was
recently
appointed
as
the
Canadian
member
of
the
Euclid
Consortium
Board. Euclid is
an
international
mission,
led
by
the
European
Space
Agency,
with
significant
interest
from
a
number
of
international
partners
including
Canada,
and
is
planned
for
launch
in
2022. The
Euclid
mission
aims
at
understanding
why
the
expansion
of
the Universe
is
accelerating
and
what is
the
nature
of
the
source responsible
for
this
acceleration,
which
physicists
refer
to
as
Dark
Energy.
The
Euclid
Consortium
consists
of
over
1200
scientists
and
engineers:
the
Board
oversees
the
entire
consortium.
Prof
Hudson
is
also
a
member
of
the
working
group
that
will
use
gravitational
lensing
to
make
cosmological
measurements
and
to
study
the
properties
of
dark
matter.
He
is
supporting
Euclid
with
additional
ground-based
observations
from
the
UNIONS
survey.
More
information
about
the
Euclid
project
can
be
found
here: https://www.euclid-ec.org/
