Asantha Cooray
Asantha R. Cooray is a
professor and a chancellor's fellow at
University of California, Irvine, California, US, and a member of the research faculty at the
California Institute of Technology. His research expertise is in the field of
space science,
cosmology,
astrophysics and is a member of several space-based and NASA sounding rocket experiments and instrumentation aimed at understanding the early universe, first stars, and galaxies. He is a member of the
ESA's
Herschel Space Observatory-SPIRE Instrument Team and several NASA astrophysics missions planned for this decade, including the Inflation Probe. He has contributed to topics in field such as halo model of the galaxy distribution in the large-scale structure, and has developed ways to measure and quantify physical properties of
dark energy and
dark matter in the universe. Cooray is also a science editor of ''
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics'' (JCAP).
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