Hiranya Peiris on how the LSST will impact her work on dark matter
Published 27 April 2026
Hiranya holds the Professorship of Astrophysics (1909) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
LSST:UK team member Hiranya Peiris is one of the latest scientists to be grilled on the Radio 4 science show The Life Scientific.
Hiranya holds the Professorship of Astrophysics (1909) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. She is a Professorial Fellow at Murray Edwards College and a member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge.
In the interview on the popular Radio 4 science show, she talked about her early ambition to become an astronaut and how she was inspired to swap her studies from computer science to physics. She also explained how her work on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time will provide new perspectives on dark matter.
Listen to the interview with Professor Hiranya Peiris
In June 2025, LSST:UK team member Catherine Heymans also appeared on the The Life Scientific; you can listen here.