Galaxy Formation, Lund University

Oscar Agertz

Associate Professor in Astrophysics
Division of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Lund University
Wallenberg Academy Fellow
Leader of the Lund Galaxy Formation group
Elected member of the Young Academy of Sweden and the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund

About me

I am an Associate Professor at the Division of Astrophysics, Department of Physics at Lund University, Sweden, and leader of the Lund Galaxy Formation group (Galaxies@LU).

My research is focused on the formation and evolution of galaxies in a cosmological context. Using state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations, I explore a wide range of topics, including how galaxies form in a cosmological context, galaxy evolution, star formation in the interstellar medium, stellar feedback processes, and the origins of galactic outflows.

In 2010 I received my PhD at the University of Zürich under the supervision of Ben Moore and Romain Teyssier. I was subsequently awarded a Kavli Fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago. In 2013 I became an Assistant Professor at the newly formed astrophysics group at the University of Surrey. In 2016 I received a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship which, together with multiple sources of external funding, has allowed me to establish a galaxy formation research group at Lund University.

The Lund galaxy formation group plays an active role in ESA's new F-class space mission ARRAKIHS, with launch in 2030. The mission will shed new light on dark matter and galaxy formation physics.

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- 10 September, 2025: Nature paper on globular cluster formation

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Oscar Agertz

Associate Professor in AstrophysicsDivision of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Lund University

Wallenberg Academy Fellow

Leader of the Lund Galaxy Formation group

Elected member of the Young Academy of Sweden and the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund

About me

Associate Professor in Astrophysics
Division of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Lund University