Arthur Loureiro's project is funded by the Swedish National Space Agency
"At the beginning of January 2025, the Swedish National Space Agency announced that my Career Grant project was selected for funding (5.45 million SEK). This grant will support my research activities here at Fysikum, focusing on cosmology linked to the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, which will be launched in July 2023," says Arthur Loureiro, researcher at the Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm University.
Arthur Loureiro, researcher at Oskar Klein Center, Stockholm University.
Neutrinos in billions come from the sun through you at close to the speed of light and barely react with anything. These ghostly particles have now been shown to have mass and this discovery was rewarded with the 2015 Nobel Prize. Neutrinos can switch between three different types, which they can only do if they have mass, but they remain a mystery to scientists.
Today, we are ready to tackle this mystery with a pioneering project using data from the Euclid space telescope and the Planck satellite. Launched in 2024, Euclid is mapping the dark universe, capturing detailed images of billions of galaxies over 10 billion years of cosmic history.
Arthur Loureiro is the project leader and part of the Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm University. The project ‘Measurement of the lightest neutrino mass with synergies between the Euclid Space Telescope and the Planck satellite’ has been awarded a total of SEK 5,452,000 over four years.
The Swedish National Space Board is Sweden's space agency and is responsible for government-funded national and international space activities in Sweden in terms of research and development.
