Martin White
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About
Martin White is a leading cosmologist at the forefront of dark energy research, whose work is central to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration. His primary research areas include large-scale structure, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), and the precision measurement of the universe’s expansion history. White made a landmark contribution as a key author of the first detection of the BAO signal from early DESI data (2023, 37 citations), a milestone that demonstrated the instrument’s power to probe cosmic acceleration. He has also led critical methodological advances, such as characterizing and mitigating fiber assignment incompleteness in DESI’s Data Release 1 (2025, 20 citations), ensuring the integrity of two-point clustering measurements. With a citation count exceeding 100,000 across his career, White’s impact is profound. He is a recipient of the American Physical Society’s Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics and is widely recognized for developing theoretical frameworks that bridge galaxy surveys and fundamental physics. His work continues to shape the next generation of cosmological surveys.
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- 1First detection of the BAO signal from early DESI data37 citations · 2023
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