Galaxies are arguably complex systems. However, they also display many scaling relations between their physical properties, hinting that it might be possible to...
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TalkHow simple are galaxies?
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TalkHunting for VIPERS red nuggets - traces of the past
Vimos Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) is a spectroscopic survey designed to investigate the spatial distribution of ~90k galaxies on redshift 0.4...
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TalkImpact of Star Formation on Dusty and Magnetized ISM in Nearby Galaxies
Stars, the most fundamental building blocks of galaxies, are born within the clouds of gas and dust and and during their lives they enrich the gas and the...
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TalkIndiana Jones and where to find relic galaxies
There are galaxies that remain untouched since the ancient Universe. These unique objects, the so-called relic galaxies, are several times more massive than our...
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TalkInteracting Binary Stars and Stellar Populations
Spectroscopic analysis of stellar populations is widely used to understand the history of many systems including globular clusters, nuclear star clusters, dwarf...
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TalkIntra-Cluster Light at the Frontier: Abell 2744
The ultra-deep multiwavelength HST Frontier Fields coverage of the Abell Cluster 2744 is used to derive the stellar population properties of its intra-cluster...
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TalkIntroduction of new postdocs. (1) Stellar magnetic fields, (2) My humble efforts to understand galaxy formation and evolution, (3) Waiting for Herschel: my perspective
(1) Stellar magnetic fields. Spectro-polarimetry is a very powerful tool to diagnose magnetic fields in a large variety of astrophysical objects. My research...
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TalkJWST view of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and dust in local active galaxies
Nowadays, it is widely accepted that most galaxies undergo an active phase in their evolution. The impact of the energy released by active galactic nuclei (AGN)...
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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...