Let us introduce Prof. Licia Verde from the University of Barcelona and co-convener of the ISSI Workshop on "What’s under the H₀od? Towards consensus on the local value of the Hubble constant".

Listen to Licia as she shares how reading a book about the sky sparked her fascination with space, leading her to study the curious expansion of the universe. She explains why we need the "cosmic distance ladder" to determine the rate of this expansion and what its different steps, such as the "parallax method", are.

Licia also reflects on the ISSI Workshop and what lies hidden beyond the surprising dynamics we observe in the sky beyond our atmosphere.