My research interests involve many topics in galactic and interstellar astrophysics. See the links below for the three main pillars that underpin my research.
Student projects
I have acted as primary research supervisor to a number of students throughout my career, both at the undergrad, MSc, and PhD level. Currently at CSUS I supervise the following students in independent research:
- J. Alejandro was funded for summer 2023 by my RCA award. Justin is working on making synethic radio images of my BESPOKE galaxy simulations using the TORUS radiative transfer code.
- T. Zheng has been funded for summer research through SURE scholarships. His work focusses on identifying spurs of spiral arms in the synethic Galactic plane surveys.
- J. Abello is working with me on their senior project testing turbulent star formation models in disc galaxies.
- J. Naguria is helping me turn my simulated disc galaxies into 3D printable models for outreach events.
Past students
Previous graduate students I supervised when in Hokkaido Unversity include Elizabeth Iles (who is now a post-doc at Sydney) and Veronica Zhang (who has since left academia). Elizabeth's thesis studied the impact on galactic interactions on inner bars, and Veronica's was on the impact of dark matter halos on galactic spiral structure.
At Sac. State I have supervised L. Huynh in their work modelling chemistry in giant molecular clouds, T. Nguyen's project on tidal interactions between galaxies, and N. Aleksandrova's work on identifying giant molecular clouds in barred galaxies.
Mock-optical image of barred-spiral NGC 4303
[E. Iles]
Weak spirals in a triaxial dark matter halo
[V. Zhang]