First Name
Lukas
Middle Name
Tobias
Last Name
Hergt
Position
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Office Room
324
Email
lthergt@phas.ubc.ca
Research Groups

Students Wanted
N/A

Bachelor's Degree
2011-2014: B.Sc. in Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Master's Degree
2014-2016: M.Sc. in Physics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

Doctoral Degree
2017-2021: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Cambridge, UK

Committees and Service

I am a member of the GAMBIT cosmology working group, working with a community of cosmologists, particle physicists and statisticians who use terrestrial collider data in conjunction with astrophysical observations to constrain theories of dark matter, neutrinos and modified gravity.

I am a member of the LiteBIRD collaboration. LiteBIRD is a satellite that will search for primordial gravitational waves by observing the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Detection of such primordial gravitational waves would provide profound knowledge on the epoch of cosmic inflation. Beyond that, better measurements of the CMB polarisation will allow us to constrain the sum of the neutrino masses, which is not accessible to neutrino detectors from particle experiments.


Citizenship
German

Research Area
Astronomy & Astrophysics

Research Field
Cosmology

Research Topics
Cosmic Microwave Background
Inflationary Cosmology
Bayesian Statistics