Research interests
My main interest focuses on understanding how galaxies formed and evolved, and how the environment affects this process. I have attacked these questions using multi-wavelengt observations as well as simulations.
My main interests are listed below (probably not very up to date). And to see what my students/postcods are working on, you may visit the Valpo jellyfishers group site.
Specific research areas
(click on the green items for more info)
➥ Galaxy evolution: nature and nurture
Gas stripping in cluster galaxies: observations and simulations
"Jellyfish" galaxies: extreme cases of ram-pressure stripping of cold gas in galaxies by the hot intra-cluster medium (ICM)
Active galactic nuclei (AGN): Supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies
➥ Large-scale structure and Cosmology
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Galaxy clusters, groups and filaments
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Substructures within clusters
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Position vs. velocity phase-space diagrams of cluster galaxies
➥ Formation of the Milky Way
➥ Astronomical intrumentation & techniques
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Integral Field Spectroscopy
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Adaptive Optics