Las mañanas IFCA con Helena Domínguez: "A Personal Journey Through Galaxy Evolution: Morphology, Stellar Populations, and Hidden Features"
Start date: 14/03/2025 12:30
End date: 14/03/2025 13:30
"A Personal Journey Through Galaxy Evolution: Morphology, Stellar Populations, and Hidden Features"
"When and why do the most massive systems quench their star formation? Why is there such a tight connection between galaxy morphology and star formation efficiency? How can we morphologically classify large samples of galaxies? What can we learn about the mass assembly of galaxies from their stellar population gradients? How do variations in the Initial Mass Function affect dynamical mass estimates? What is the fraction of AGNs in dwarf galaxies? How can we optimize the detection of galaxies with low surface brightness features? If you are interested in any of these topics, I will try to address them by reviewing my research trajectory and my current role in the ARRAKIHS mission. As a newly appointed Ramón y Cajal fellow, I hope this serves as an introduction to my work and fosters potential collaborations and synergies with other IFCA members."
Helena Domínguez Sánchez studies galaxy formation and evolution from an observational perspective, combining data from large surveys with machine learning techniques. She obtained her PhD in Bologna in 2012 and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at several world-renowned astronomical institutions, including the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and the Observatoire de Paris. Since 2019, she has been an independent researcher, first as an ICE Fellow (Barcelona), then as a tenure-track researcher at CEFCA (Teruel). In 2024, she joined IFCA as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow.
La charla tendrá lugar en la Sala Luis Pesquera del IFCA a las 12:30. Café previo a las 12:15.
*Animamos a asistir a todo el personal del IFCA, postdocs, directores de tesis, etc.
