Will Percival

• Observational cosmology
• Cosmological structure formation
• Cosmological models
• Large-Scale structure
• Galaxy surveys
• Galaxy formation & evolution

Large international teams are required to undertake galaxy surveys, and Professor Percival helps to run a number of experiments. In particular, he holds the position of Survey Scientist in the on-going extended-Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS, www.sdss.org/surveys/eboss), and is a primary science coordinator for the future satellite mission Euclid (http://sci.esa.int/euclid). He is also working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI, http://desi.lbl.gov) and is involved in a number of other experiments and the use of their cosmological measurements.

W.J. Percival, (+26 co-authors), The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The power spectrum and the matter
content of the universe, 2001, MNRAS, 327, 1297 [arXiv:0105252]

S. Cole, W.J. Percival, (+27 co-authors), The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: power spectrum, 2005,
MNRAS, 362, 505 [arXiv:0501174]

W.J. Percival, (+27 co-authors), Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data
Release 7 Galaxy Sample, 2010, MNRAS, 401, 2148 [arXiv:0907.1660]

K.S. Dawson, J.-P. Kneib,W.J. Percival, (+142 co-authors), The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data, 2016, AJ 151, 44 [arXiv:1508.04473]

D. Bianchi, W.J. Percival, Unbiased clustering estimation in the presence of missing observations,
2017, MNRAS 472, 1106 [arXiv:1703.02070]

Publications from UKADS
Publications from INSPIRE
Publications from arXiv
Publications from the UoP Research Portal

• Chinese Academy of Sciences "Distinguished Scientist'' fellowship 2016.
• Co-recipient of the 2008 Royal Astronomical Society team award for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey.
• Royal Astronomical Society 2008 Fowler Prize awarded to “individuals who have made a note-worthy contribution at an early stage of their research career”.
• 2007 Philip Leverhulme Prize awarded to “outstanding scholars (normally under the age of 36) who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study”

• ​European Space Agency Astronomy Working Group (2013-2017).
• ​UK Space Agency Space Programme Advisory Committee (2013-17).
• UK STFC Astronomy Grants Panel (2013-15).
• Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes Science Advisory Committee (2011-13).

1999 PhD University of Oxford, Oxford, UK