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Kevin Reil

Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Research Projects

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

DESI is the heart of a ground-based survey that will spend the first half of the next decade pinpointing the locations and spectra of up to 35 million galaxies and 2.4 million quasars across one-third of the night sky.

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST) is a mission designed to study dark energy, the evolution of galaxies, and the populations of extrasolar planets.