On Behalf of DESI, Daniel Eisenstein Receives 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy

On Behalf of DESI, Harvard Astronomy Professor Daniel Eisenstein Receives 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration is an international experiment with more than 750 researchers from over 70 institutions around the world and is managed by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The state-of-the-art instrument, which captures light from 5,000 galaxies simultaneously, was constructed and is operated with funding from the DOE Office of Science. DESI is mounted on the US National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (a program of NSF NOIRLab) in Arizona.

The Berkeley Prize will be accepted on behalf of the collaboration by Daniel Eisenstein, a professor in the Harvard University Department of Astronomy, member of the DESI Executive Committee, and former DESI spokesperson.