PhD of Science: Astrophysics from the Danish Technical University (DTU), Denmark
Correo electrónico: malte.brinch@uv.cl
Research
My research focuses on the evolution of galaxies and their environment, with an emphasis on locating and studying protoclusters. Investigating the evolution of protoclusters is vital to understanding how the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the present-day universe, galaxy clusters, came to be.
I reduce and analyze data ranging from the ultraviolet to the sub-mm range to obtain a holistic understanding of galaxies and their environment, obtained from telescopes such as HST, Keck, JWST, NOEMA, ALMA, and JCMT.
As part of my research, I have developed a code to construct overdensity maps to search for protocluster candidates in the high redshift Universe, using large surveys such as COSMOS. Following the search for protocluster candidates, I obtained and analyzed Keck DEIMOS observations for a candidate at redshift six to determine the spectroscopic redshift of the galaxies. I have also studied sub-mm galaxies by analyzing ALMA and NOEMA line and continuum data, as they are argued to be signposts for protoclusters, but also to study the properties of the galaxies themselves.
