The standard cosmological model, in conjunction with the most recent observations, indicate that the Universe is composed of 4% radiation and baryonic matter, and 96% of unknown components: cold dark matter, until now not directly detected, but necessary for the formation of structure and dark energy, responsible for the accelerated expansion of the Universe. There are open questions that modern cosmology seeks to answer: What is the nature of dark matter? What is the nature of the dark energy that dominates the Universe? What happened in the first moments of the Universe and what is the physics behind this phenomenon? These questions have inspired ambitious research programs to answer them.
At IFUNAM, dark matter and energy are studied from a theoretical-phenomenological and experimental-observational perspective. Participation in two dark energy experiments: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) / Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).
