Christoph Saulder, MPE
Host: Gustavo Bruzual
Galaxy scaling relations in the era of large-scale surveys
The large amount of data collected by current large-scale surveys will
allow us to explore the properties of galaxies with unprecedented
precision and help us understand their formation and evolution better
than ever before. My research primarily focuses on kinematic galaxy
scaling relations, which are used to measure the peculiar velocities
of galaxies and thereby infer cosmological parameters. In my future
research, I aim to explore how new deep imaging data can improve
galaxy scaling relations, and how the full kinematic information from
IFU spectroscopy can be combined with new scaling relations to obtain
more accurate peculiar velocity measurements. Furthermore, given the
wealth of available data, I will also study extreme and rare galaxy
populations, such as red nugget relics, their formation channels, and
what they can tell us about highly efficient star formation in the
early Universe. In this way, my research aims to connect precision
cosmology with galaxy evolution, using the same rich datasets to
address both fields.