In the local universe, galaxies fall into one of two populations: a star-forming blue cloud and a red sequence lacking star formation. At redshift z ~ 1.5...
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TalkFrom the blue cloud to the red sequence (and over the green valley): investigating the evolution of galaxies over cosmological timescales
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TalkGalactic Globular Clusters: Why should we care about them?
Galactic globular clusters have always been at the crossroad of several investigations in both Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics. For long time, they have been...
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TalkGalactic Palaeontology
I will talk about how resolved stellar populations in the nearby Local Group dwarf galaxies have been used to study the detailed chemical, kinematic and star...
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TalkGalaxy ecology with SDSS
It has been thirty years since the seminal work of Alan Dressler on the density-morphology relation, which established environment as a driving mechanism for...
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TalkIAU G5 -- The GALAH survey: science goals and highlights to date
The field of Galactic archaeology has been very active in recent years, with a major influx of data from the Gaia satellite and large spectroscopic surveys. The...
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PublicationInclusion and Diversity: Bars within Bars
Invited talk about double-barred galaxies for the conference "Galactic bars: driving and decoding galaxy evolution" (Granada, 3-7 July, 2023).
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PublicationIntegral field spectroscopy on the WHT.
2D-FIS, a bundle of 125 optical fibres mounted in the focal plane of the WHT, has been used to study two-dimensional stellar kinematics and populations in...
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TalkKinematics and stellar population gradients as fingerprints of past mergers in elliptical galaxies
The formation and evolution of early-type galaxies constitutes a long-standing and crucial problem in cosmology. In all hierarchical clustering models within a...
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TalkMILES: population synthesis for the 21st century
We present the new stellar population synthesis models based on the empirical stellar spectral library MILES, which can be regarded nowadays as standard in the...