ERC Consolidator Grant for Sebastiano Cantalupo

Researchers from ETH Zurich have been successful in the allocation of prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants: two female and two male scientists have each received a grant of on average EUR 2 million. ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to successful researchers to help them continue to build their own research groups.

Among the grantees is Sebastiano Cantalupo, Assistant Professor of Cosmic Structure Formation. His project is dedicated to "unravelling the Cosmic Web with fluorescent emission".

Our current cosmological model suggest that matter in the universe is distributed in a network of filaments, the “Cosmic Web”, connecting all galaxies. In his ERC program, Sebastiano Cantalupo will use the most advanced telescopes and facilities now or soon available to obtain a direct picture of this Cosmic Web illuminated by quasars and galaxies. By comparing this data with new models that will be developed for this project, his team will address fundamental questions for our understanding of the universe, including: what is the nature of Dark Matter? How is matter distributed within Cosmic Web filaments? How do galaxies form and evolve within these filaments?