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Oliver Zahn

Astrophysicist, Founder, Investor, interested in making Earth a better place. Building collaborative super-intelligence at Sapience Labs/CoreTx, and hiring!

Berkeley, California, United States · 3 connections

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About

I like solving problems, and the bigger the positive impact can be, the begger. Love discovering structure behind phenomena, and simplicity in complexities. Wrote more than 100 articles in major scientific journals with > 18,000 citations & h-index > 70. Thrive working with diverse groups of passionate, mission driven, and clever folks. My proudest accomplishment however is being a committed father of four - my favorite peace warriors on Earth:-)

Experience

Co-FounderCoreTx Inc.
Sep 2025
Head of Data ScienceGoogle
Jul 2018 to Mar 2020
Senior Data ScientistSpaceX
Jan 2018 to Jan 2018
Lead Data ScientistImpossible Foods
Jan 2016 to Dec 2017
Director of Cosmological PhysicsUC Berkeley Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2014 to Jan 2016
Berkeley Cosmology Prize FellowUC Berkeley Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2008 to Dec 2013

Education

Harvard University
Doctoral fellowship Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics
2003 to 2008
Heidelberg University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astrophysics and Cosmology
2003 to 2007
Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics
Diploma thesis Computational Cosmology
2002 to 2003
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
BA & Diploma in Physics Major: Physics
1998 to 2003