Martin SahlénDocent in Astronomy,
Researcher in astrophysics and cosmology

Division of Astronomy & Space Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Uppsala University

Biography

Martin Sahlén is docent and researcher in astronomy with specialization in astrophysics at Uppsala University. He studied at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Cambridge, earned his PhD from the University of Sussex in 2009, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge, Stockholm and Oxford. He has been a Fulbright fellow at Johns Hopkins, and a Natural Sciences fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. He joined Uppsala University in 2016.

Sahlén's research focuses on the large-scale structure of the Universe, and its connection to astrophysics and fundamental physics. In particular, he is investigating the very first generations of galaxies, and late-Universe galaxy distributions. Recent work includes the demonstration of the power of galaxy clusters and cosmic voids as probes of deviations from General Relativity and to measure the mass of neutrinos, the first cosmological parameter estimation based on cosmic voids, and discovery of a powerful new test of modified gravity theories. He is member of the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), the BUFFALO survey, the Euclid Consortium, the SKA Observatory, and an external collaborator in the Dark Energy Survey. Sahlén also works on the philosophy of astrophysics and cosmology. His research was highlighted in “The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018”.