Cambridge Centre for Dr Sandro Tacchella
Assistant Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics
Contact information
Kavli Institute for Cosmology
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Biography
- 2022-present: Assistant Professor, Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics) & Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2021-2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UNIST, Korea
- 2017-2021: CfA Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
- 2012-2017: Ph. D. in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Research interests
My long-range scientific goal is to understand the physics of the formation and evolution of galaxies and black holes across cosmic time. Specifically, I am studying the physical mechanisms that govern the formation of the first galaxies in the early universe, the buildup of the bulge and disk components in galaxies, and the cessation of star formation in massive galaxies. I’m using and develop both observational and theoretical tools to shed new light on the co-evolution of dark matter, galaxies and black holes.
Keywords
Artificial intelligence, Bayesian methods, Big data, Data mining, Data science, Data visualisation and understanding, Image analysis, Image processing, Machine learning, Monte carlo methods, Statistical inference, Time series