Sune Toft

Sune Toft is a professor of Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute [1] [2].. His research focuses on understanding the cosmic origin and evolution of galaxies [3].

Sune Toft
NationalityDanish
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
Known forCosmology, Galaxy Evolution
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy, Cosmology
InstitutionsUniversity of Copenhagen
Cosmic Dawn Center
Doctoral advisorJens Hjorth

Early education

Sune Toft was educated through the Danish education system, earning his bachelors degree in Physics in 1998 at the University of Copenhagen, and his masters degree in 2000, and his PhD with a thesis titled " High redshift Clusters of Galaxies " in 2003 [4], both from the Niels Bohr Institute, under the supervision of Jens Hjorth.

Scientific career

Toft is currently the Director of the Cosmic Dawn Center[5].

Toft spent five years at Yale University as a postdoctoral research associate with Pieter van Dokkum from 2004 to 2006[6], and an independent ESO fellow at the European Southern Observatory headquarters in Garchingen, Germany from 2007 to 2009.[5][7][8][9]

Teaching

Since 2009, Toft has taught the course Cosmology, formerly known as Astro III [10]. Toft won the Niels Bohr Institute Jens Martin Teaching price for teaching the course along with his former doctoral advisor Jens Hjorth in 2012 [11].

Supervised PhD/MSc projects

This list is incomplete. Year of thesis defense in parentheses

  • Carlos Gómez-Guijarro (2019) Thesis
  • Mikkel Stockmann (2019) Thesis
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References
  1. "Sune Toft". KU. Retrieved 25 Feb 2020.
  2. "Sune Toft Professorship Inaugural Lecture". Niels Bohr Institute. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  3. "Sune Toft". Niels Bohr Institute. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  4. "News Story on Lundbeck Grant to Sune Toft". University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  5. "DNRF article on the inauguration of DAWN", Danish National Research Foundation, retrieved 14 March 2020
  6. "Pieter Van Dokkum CV" (PDF).
  7. "COSMOS Scientific Steering Committee". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  8. "Euclid newsletter" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  9. "CALET page on people involved". Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  10. "Course information", Niels Bohr Institute, retrieved 15 April 2020
  11. "News story on the 2012 Jens Martin Prize".

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