Enrique Paillas

I’m an astrophysicist, originally from Santiago de Chile, and currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, in Ontario, Canada. My main research interests revolve around precision cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe. I’m particularly interested in studying the way in which galaxies cluster, in order to better understand the nature of gravity and dark energy.

I’m an active member of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration, where I’m currently leading the density-split clustering analysis. This project aims at constraining cosmological parameters by characterizing the clustering of galaxies as a function of environmental density. I’m also part of the Euclid Consortium, where I’m focused in using cosmic voids as a probe of dark energy and alternative models of gravity.