On Monday, 07 October 2024 (actually on Niels Bohr's birthday) we had a guided tour by Robert Sunderland in Niels Bohr's old study at Blegdamsvej.
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On Friday, 11 October 2024, Jasleen Matharu gave a public talk about the amazing new discoveries about early galaxies with JWST for the CPH Culture Night.
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On Monday, 28 October 2024, Lukas Zalesky successfully defended his PhD Thesis at University of Hawai'i with the title:
"The Frontiers of Galaxy Evolution in the North Ecliptic Pole: A 10 Square-Degree Survey to Map The Growth of Stellar Mass in Galaxies Across 10 Billion Years"
The PhD Committe included: David Sanders, Sune Toft, Istvan Szapudi, David Rubin, Kenneth Chambers and Peter Gorham
Big congratulations to Lukas!
Photo: Dave Sanders, Lukas Zalesky and Sune Toft
Hi, everyone! I am Minju Lee, currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow based at DTU.
My general research topic is galaxy formation and evolution and my expertise is submm/mm interferometry observations and analysis. My main interest has been in constraining the properties of cold-phase gas and dust, which are the direct fuels of star formation.
Fun Fact: Recently, I’ve been really into playing badminton! It’s been almost a year since I started playing (somewhat) regularly on Sunday mornings. I’m not (yet) a great player, and I often suffer from muscle pain on Mondays and Tuesdays, but I enjoy it a lot with an amazing group of people.
Please let me know if you're interested! 🙂
Since my PhD, my main interest has been understanding the formation and evolution of massive galaxies and their connection to the surrounding environment in the distant universe (when the age of the Universe is less than 6 billion years old). The majority of massive galaxies have ceased star formation (what we call 'quenched') and are often found in dense environments, like clusters. One of my ongoing projects is also relevant; it aims to improve the current understanding of gas content evolution across cosmic time through ALMA archival data mining.
Constraining massive quiescent galaxies' dust and gas properties is a new avenue to understanding quenching mechanisms in the distant universe. This is becoming an even more interesting topic with discoveries of abundant massive quiescent populations with the James Webb Space Telescope. How did they emerge, and will they stay quenched forever?
The most exciting finding of my paper is that a non-negligible amount of dust content is found in a massive quiescent galaxy. People have generally thought that for galaxy quenching, the fuel must be gone. However, recent findings, including my work, do not always support this view. Insights from simulations suggest that different quenching mechanisms may play a role, leading to varying dust (or gas) depletion timescales after the onset of quenching.
However, we need more samples to confirm this!
OPPORTUNITIES & CALLS
| ♦ UCPH Course: "Boost your research career and network with social media" | 01 Nov | Link is here |
| ♦ Course: Introductory course to collaborative Horizon Europe Projects | 11 Nov | Link is here |
| ♦ UCPH Conference "Make A Difference Conference - skills in digital learning technologies" | 12 Nov | Link is here |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Synergy Grant (Preliminary call) | 06 Nov | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ Horizon Europe - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks - preliminary call | 27 Nov | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ L'Oréal-UNESCO 'For Women in Science-award' | 01 Jan | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ EU Horizon Europe - ERC Consolidator Grant (Preliminary call) | 14 Jan | DTU link | UCPH link |
| ♦ DFF Independent Research Fund Denmark: Project 1 | 29 Apr | DTU link | UCPH link |
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