Hahn Oliver

About me

office :  Laboratoire Lagrange
adress : Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
Boulevard de l'Observatoire
CS 34229
06304 NICE
France

  phone :  +33 (0)4 92 00 30 62
  email : oliver.hahn@oca.eu

Research Interests:

My main research focus is numerical simulations of structure formation in the Universe.
Starting from our understanding of the very early universe, I perform simulations of a wide range of scales: how dark matter collapses and forms the seeds of galaxies, how the large-scale filamentary network of galaxies arises from the counteracting forces of the expansion of the universe and the pull of gravity; how the largest collapsed objects in the universe - clusters of hundreds and thousands of galaxies - form and evolve and what we can learn about our universe from those most extreme objects; and how galaxies form as part of the large-scale structure that feeds them with gas. I am also interested in developing numerical simulation techniques that allow us to answer questions about the universe both more precisely and more efficiently.

Awards:

Starting grant of the European Research Council (2015)
Ambizione fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2011)

Past and Current Positions:

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur / Université de Nice, France           04/2015-

University Professor

ETH Zurich, Switzerland           2012-2015

SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow

Stanford University/SLAC, USA           2009-2012

KIPAC Postdoctoral Fellow

ETH Zurich, Switzerland           2005-2009

Graduate Researcher