Hunting for Almost-Dark galaxies (ADs)

I hunt the extremely faint galaxies in the universe. And we call them - those with similar sizes to ultra-diffuse galaxies but are 10-100 times fainter - "Almost-dark" galaxies! Check out my paper on the discovery of TTT J1237327+143535, accepted for publication in A&A Letters, Serendipitous discovery of an almost-dark galaxy in the Virgo Cluster !

Searching for low surface brightness galaxies (LSBs)

Starting from Oct 2024, I am a EDUCADO PhD candidate at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands , working with Johan Knapen, Ignacio Trujillo , Michael Wilkinson (University of Groningen), Reynier Peletier (University of Groningen), and Zeljko Ivezic (University of Washington). My research will focus on searching for low surface brightness galaxies around Milky Way-like hosts, using deep imaging surveys.
Image credit: Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) / Gabriel Pérez (IAC).

Globular cluster systems of 707 nearby galaxies

In my master's project working with Dr. Andrew Cooper, we used DESI Legacy Survey imaging data , to estimate the globular cluster (GC) density profiles and GC number counts of 707 galaxies within 30 Mpc. Check out my first first-author paper, accepted for publication in ApJ, here !