Sandro Tacchella
Associate Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics

I am Associate Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics at the Department of Physics (Cavendish Laboratory) at the University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology. I am also a Fellow of St Edmund's College. Before joining Cambridge, I was Assistant Professor at UNIST in Korea and a CfA Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the USA. I received my Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in Switzerland. 

My long-term scientific goal is to understand how galaxies and black holes form and evolve across cosmic time. I study the physical processes that shape the first galaxies in the early Universe, drive the growth of galactic bulges and disks, and bring star formation to an end in massive galaxies. I use and develop observational and theoretical tools to shed new light on the co-evolution of dark matter, galaxies, and black holes. You can find more about my research group here.