Galaxy evolution
How do galaxies grow, move and interact? I've focused on the recent life of massive galaxies, and how a history of collisions and accretion lead to them losing their spin.
I'm a second year graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University in New York. I'll happily study anything that spins. I spend my days crashing galaxies into each other. I don't know which end of a telescope is which.
I also write, talk and occasionally film all kinds of science outreach.
How do galaxies grow, move and interact? I've focused on the recent life of massive galaxies, and how a history of collisions and accretion lead to them losing their spin.
An orbit is a beautiful thing, a hundred are not. Perplexingly a million might be. I'm interested in going from the mapped motion of a single point to the swelled tide of an ensemble to make sense of the cavorting motions of stars and galaxies.
It's a lofty dream, but I aim to spend as much time scribbling on the back of envelopes as possible.