Personal profile
Biography
I studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and then joined the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge for my PhD, which I received in 2002. I was awarded a PPARC research fellowship to carry out research at the University of Edinburgh, followed by an STFC Advanced Fellowship in 2004. I joined the University of Portsmouth in 2007 as a Senior Research Fellow and RCUK Academic Fellow, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2012, Reader in 2014, Professor in 2018 and Associate Director of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation in 2019.
Research Interests
Cosmology at radio wavelengths, gravitational lensing, theories of gravity.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Artificial intelligence enhanced litter pollution mapping: integrating citizen science with geospatial and social data
Rezaei, H., Roberts, K., Arabikhan, F., Fletcher, S., March, A. L. A., Couceiro, F., Bacon, D., Hutchinson, D. & Williams, J., 1 Feb 2026, In: Environmental Modelling & Software. 197, 18 p., 106823.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Biasing from galaxy trough and peak profiles with the DES Y3 redMaGiC galaxies and the weak lensing mass map
Dark Energy Survey Collaboration & Bacon, D., 1 Feb 2026, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 546, 2, 21 p., stag006.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cosmology with second- and third-order shear statistics for the Dark Energy Survey: Methods and simulated analysis
Dark Energy Survey Collaboration, Bacon, D. & Gaztanaga, E., 4 Dec 2025, In: Physical Review D. 112, 12, p. 1235141-12351426 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dark energy survey: Modeling strategy for multiprobe cluster cosmology and validation for the full six-year dataset
DES Collaboration, Bacon, D. & Gaztanaga, E., 18 Sept 2025, In: Physical Review D. 112, 6, 27 p., 063537.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Simulation-based cosmological inference with wavelet harmonics, scattering transforms, and moments of weak lensing mass maps. II. cosmological results
DES Collaboration, Bacon, D. & Gaztanaga, E., 3 Mar 2025, In: Physical Review D. 111, 6, 25 p., 063504.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Data availability statement for 'Cosmological constraints from multiple probes in the Dark Energy Survey'.
Bacon, D. (Creator), Macaulay, E. R. M. (Creator), Nichol, B. (Creator), Ross, A. J. (Creator), Swann, E. S. (Creator) & Thomas, D. (Creator), American Physical Society, 1 May 2019
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Data availability statement for 'Testing general relativity with the Doppler magnification effect'.
Andrianomena, S. (Creator), Bonvin, C. (Creator), Bacon, D. (Creator), Bull, P. (Creator), Clarkson, C. (Creator), Maartens, R. (Creator) & Moloi, T. (Creator), Oxford University Press, 8 Jul 2019
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Data availabilty statement for 'Cosmology with Phase 1 of the Square Kilometre Array Red Book 2018: technical specifications and performance forecasts'.
Bacon, D. (Creator) & Maartens, R. (Creator), Cambridge University Press, 6 Mar 2020
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Data availability statement for 'Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Galaxy-galaxy lensing'.
Bacon, D. (Creator), Ross, A. J. (Creator), D'Andrea, C. B. (Creator), Nichol, B. (Creator) & Thomas, D. (Creator), American Physical Society, 27 Aug 2018
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Data availability statement for 'Testing Emergent Gravity on galaxy cluster scales'.
Tamosiunas, A. (Creator), Bacon, D. (Creator), Koyama, K. (Creator) & Nichol, B. (Creator), IOP Publishing, 25 Apr 2019
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Constraining beyond LCDM models with stage-IV dark energy surveys
Koyama, K. (PI) & Bacon, D. (CoI)
Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/07/25 → 31/03/29
Project: Research
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Cosmology, Gravitation and Astrophysics at Portsmouth
Crittenden, R. (PI), Amara, A. (CoI), Assadullahi, H. (CoI), Bacon, D. (CoI), Graur, O. (CoI), Koyama, K. (CoI), Wands, D. (CoI) & Noller, J. (CoI)
1/04/22 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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Decoding the Deep: Applying artificial intelligence to marine soundscapes
Marley, S. (PI), Ford, A. (CoI), Bacon, D. (CoI), Shin, D. (CoI) & Jordanov, I. (CoI)
1/04/19 → 31/07/20
Project: Research
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Cosmology and Astrophysics at Portsmouth
Nichol, B. (PI), Maartens, R. (CoI), Maraston, C. (CoI), Wands, D. (CoI), Thomas, D. (CoI), Crittenden, R. (CoI), Bacon, D. (CoI), Koyama, K. (CoI), Bruni, M. (CoI) & Percival, W. (CoI)
Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/04/13 → 31/03/16
Project: Research
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Survey Roller
Nichol, B. (PI), Maartens, R. (CoI), Thomas, D. (CoI), Maraston, C. (CoI), Bacon, D. (CoI), Crittenden, R. (CoI) & Percival, W. (CoI)
Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/04/11 → 31/03/15
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Dark Energy Survey: 700 million astronomical objects discovered in ‘momentous milestone’
14/01/21 → 15/01/21
5 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research cited
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Understanding dark energy
Nichol, B. & Bacon, D.
2/03/18
1 Media contribution
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