Some of the ongoing research

 

·       Characterization of substructure in phase-space

·       Methods to detect substructure associated to past mergers

·       The shapes of dark matter halos and the link to their history

·       Modelling the internal dynamics of the Milky Way and its satellites

·       Chemical evolution of dwarf galaxies

 

 

Some of the ongoing collaborations

 

·       The RAVE survey

·      The Aquarius Project

 

 

PhD thesis by former team members

 

·       Local Group galaxies in a LambdaCDM Universe  (2009) by Yang-Shyang Li

·       Simulations of the formation of thick discs in galaxies  (2009) by Alvaro Villalobos

·       Chemistry and kinematics of stars in Local Group galaxies   (2007) by Giuseppina Battaglia