Sune Toft is a professor of Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics at the

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. His research focuses on understanding the cosmic origin and evolution of

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. Toft is married to Ingeborg Dena Taarup and has three kids, Viggo Toft, Fenja Disa Faber Toft and Keela Elena Faber Toft

Early education

Sune Toft was educated through the Danish education system, earning his bachelors degree in

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in 1998 at the

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, and his masters degree in 2000, and his PhD with a thesis titled ''High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies'' in 2003, both from the

, under the supervision of Jens Hjorth.

Scientific career

Toft is currently the Director of the

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. He was previously at

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as a postdoctoral research associate with Pieter van Dokkum from 2004 to 2006, and an independent ESO fellow at the European Southern Observatory headquarters in

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from 2007 to 2009.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toft, Sune 21st-century Danish astronomers Living people Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Year of birth missing (living people)