Bagley wins STAR Prize

Graduate Student Micaela Bagley received the Euclid Special Talent And Recognition (STAR) Prize. The award is a recognition of a valuable contribution to the Euclid mission. Bagley’s advisor is Associate Professor Claudia Scarlata.

The Euclid Consortium is a space mission to map dark energy, planned to launch in 2021. The Euclid mission aims to understand 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. Dark energy represents around 75% of the energy content of the Universe today, and together with dark matter, it dominates the Universe’s matter-energy content. Both are mysterious and of unknown nature but control the past, present and future evolution of Universe.