Staff profile

I work at the ICC as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, specialising in numerical simulations and galaxy dynamics. My research interests lie outside our own galaxy - in trying to understand how the diversity of galaxies that we observe around us have formed and evolved, specifically by studying their stellar kinematic signatures, inferred dark matter profiles and the large scale environments in which they live.  I am also keen to develop tools that allow us to more readily compare our observations and simulations. This interest extends to studying numerical effects in our simulations, especially concerning velocity structure and the formation and evolution of thin galactic disks. I have previously worked at ICRAR/UWA in Perth, Australia and am a principal investigator for the MUSE large program, MAGPI.

• Galaxy dynamics
• Mock observations
• Impact of environment on galaxy evolution

Journal Article

• The diverse star formation histories of early massive, quenched galaxies in modern galaxy formation simulations
  
  del P Lagos, C., Valentino, F., Wright, R. J., de Graaff, A., Glazebrook, K., De Lucia, G., Robotham, A. S. G., Nanayakkara, T., Chandro-Gomez, A., Bravo, M., Baugh, C. M., Harborne, K. E., Hirschmann, M., Fontanot, F., Xie, L., & Chittenden, H. (2025). The diverse star formation histories of early massive, quenched galaxies in modern galaxy formation simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(3), 2324-2354. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2626