about me

Download my full CV here. Publications are listed on the research page or on INSPIRE.

Contact Information

Name Antón Baleato Lizancos
Professional Title Cosmologist & BCCP Postdoctoral Fellow
Email a.baleatolizancos@berkeley.edu
Location Campbell Hall 341, Berkeley, California 94720
Website https://abaleato.github.io

Professional Summary

Cosmologist working at the interface of theory and observations. My research aims to learn about dark energy and inflation using the CMB and galaxy surveys, harnessing fast-growing techniques like gravitational lensing, delensing, and cross-correlations.

Experience

  • 2021 - 2026

    Berkeley, CA

    Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics Postdoctoral Fellow
    UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Delensing working group lead, Simons Observatory (2022–)
    • DESI–CMB cross-correlations topical group lead (2024–)
    • Co-coordinator of DESI Key Project combining galaxy clustering with CMB lensing to test the cosmological model (2024–)

Education

  • 2017 - 2021

    Cambridge, UK

    PhD in Cosmology
    University of Cambridge (IoA & KICC)
    • Supervised by Prof. Anthony Challinor.
    • Thesis: Polishing the Lenses: Refined Modelling of Gravitational Lensing and Delensing of the CMB; examined by Prof. George Efstathiou and Prof. Antony Lewis
  • 2016 - 2017

    Cambridge, UK

    MASt in Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics
    University of Cambridge
  • 2012 - 2016

    New York, NY

    BSc in Applied Physics with a minor in Applied Mathematics (Magna Cum Laude)
    Columbia University

Awards

  • 2026
    Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy
    American Astronomical Society

    Shared with the DESI collaboration.

  • 2021
    BCCP (Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics) Fellowship
    UC Berkeley
  • 2017
    Isaac Newton PhD Scholarship
    University of Cambridge
  • 2017
    Marie Sklodowska-Curie / Inphinit La Caixa Graduate Fellowship
    La Caixa Foundation

    (Declined)

  • 2017
    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Summer Studentship
    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • 2016
    Trinity College Cambridge Studentship in Mathematics
    Trinity College, University of Cambridge
  • 2016
    Perimeter Institute PSI Scholarship
    Perimeter Institute

    (Declined)

  • 2014
    University of Oxford Bursary for Summer Research in Astrophysics
    University of Oxford
  • 2012
    Egleston Scholar
    Columbia University
  • 2012
    Davis UWC Scholar
    Columbia University
  • 2010
    United World Colleges Scholarship
    United World Colleges

Selected Talks

  • DESI: Cosmological Constraints from the Joint Analysis of Galaxy Clustering and CMB Gravitational Lensing — 3/2026, APS Global Physics Summit
  • Cosmic acceleration through a new lens: synergies between galaxy surveys and the CMB — 12/2025, CIEMAT; 12/2025, IFAE; 9/2025, Perimeter Institute; 9/2025, Waterloo Center for Astrophysics
  • A patchwork of ideas at the interface of CMB and LSS analyses — 9/2024, New Physics from Old Light workshop, Cambridge; 2/2025, Univ. of Arizona
  • Harmonic analysis of discrete tracers of large-scale structure — 7/2024, Cosmology in the Adriatic, Split; 6/2024, Univ. of Pennsylvania; 6/2024, Cosmology from Home; 1/2024, LBNL
  • New data, new methods, new challenges in CMB lensing and angular clustering — 9/2023, IFCA; 9/2023, DIPC
  • The Impact of Anisotropic Redshift Distributions on Angular Clustering — 8/2023, Dark Energy Science Collaboration Photo-z meeting
  • New techniques for precision cosmology from angular clustering — 9/2023 (contributed), COSMO’23, Madrid; 6/2023, SLAC & Stanford
  • Model independent variance cancellation in CMB lensing cross-correlations — 6/2023, SLAC; 4/2023, LBNL & UCB; 4/2023 (contributed), CMB×LSS workshop, Kyoto; 2/2023, CMB-S4 Maps to Other Statistics meeting
  • A review of CMB delensing — 7/2023, discussion organizer, Benasque; 7/2022, review talk, Key Challenges in Lensing workshop, Cambridge
  • Halo model approach to characterizing CMB lensing biases — 7/2022, Key Challenges in Galaxy & CMB Lensing Workshop, Cambridge
  • The impact of galaxies and clusters on delensing of CMB B-mode polarization — 7/2022, BCCP Summer workshop; 6/2022, Stanford Cosmology seminar
  • CMB lensing & delensing for fundamental physics — 3/2022, Univ. of Hawaii; 10/2021, Czech Academy of Sciences

Service

  • Referee for Phys. Rev. D, JCAP, MNRAS, RASTI, OJAp; internal reviewer for DESI publications; reviewer of US DOE SCGSR grants
  • Organizer of the CMB Seminar and Cosmology Journal Club, UC Berkeley & LBNL (2022–24)
  • Chair/organizer of sessions in DESI & SO collaboration meetings and international workshops (Benasque, Cambridge, etc.)

Mentoring

  • Advised five undergraduate students on research projects in collaboration with the National Society of Black Physicists, the Simons Foundation, and Berkeley N3AS. One project led to a first-author publication.
  • Co-advised four graduate students on SO and DESI pipeline development, leading to three publications.
  • Career mentor for three undergraduate students through the Berkeley Compass Project and N3AS.

Teaching

  • Introduction to Cosmology (Prof. Pettini) — undergraduate course tutor, University of Cambridge (10/2018–1/2019)
  • The Physics of Cosmology (Prof. Efstathiou) — undergraduate course tutor, University of Cambridge (1/2020–4/2020)

Languages

English, Spanish and Galician : Full competence

References

  • Prof. Anthony Challinor

    Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge — a.d.challinor@ast.cam.ac.uk

  • Dr. Simone Ferraro

    Staff Scientist, LBNL — sferraro@lbl.gov

  • Prof. Uroš Seljak

    Director, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, UC Berkeley & LBNL — useljak@berkeley.edu

  • Prof. Martin White

    Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UC Berkeley & LBNL — mwhite@berkeley.edu