Sandro Tacchella
I am a Swiss astrophysicist working at the Department of Physics (Cavendish Laboratory) and at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge. I am also a Fellow of the St Edmund's College. Before joining the University of Cambridge 2022, I was Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of UNIST in Ulsan, Korea. From 2017-2021, I was a CfA Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, USA. I have received my Ph.D. from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2017.
Academic Appointments
from 2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, UK
from 2022 Fellow of the St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK
2021-2022 Assistant Professor, UNIST, Korea
2017-2021 CfA Fellow, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
2011-2017 Research Assistant, Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Education
2017 Ph.D. in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2012 M.Sc. in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2010 B.Sc. in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Awards and Honors
2022 Fellow at St. Edmund's College
2018 E. A. Muller Award 2018 (best thesis), Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
2017 ETH Medal for an outstanding doctoral thesis
2017 CfA Fellowship, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
2016 ETH Extragalactic Astrophysics Excellence Award
2015 Selected as young researcher for the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2013 ETH Medal for an outstanding Master's thesis
2012 Honors (summa cum laude), M.Sc. in Physics, ETH Zurich
2010 Studentship (incl. grant) for Graduate Studies at University of Toronto, Canada