Andreea Font

About

Professor of Astronomy

Research interests: cosmological simulations; galaxy substructure (stellar haloes, tidal streams and dwarf satellite galaxies).

Employment

• Liverpool John Moores University

Education

• University of Victoria Ph.D.
  1999 - 2005

Projects & Funding

• Astrophysics Research at Liverpool John Moores University: Consolidated Grant Renewal Science and Technology Facilities Council
  2015 - 2018
• Constraining the Assembly History of Local Group Galaxies Royal Society
  2009 - 2013
• Chemical Evolution of Galaxies in a Lambda CDM Universe Science and Technology Facilities Council
  2006 - 2009

Publications (80)

• A simulation-based inference of the Milky Way merger history
  Andrea Sante, Andreea S. Font, Daisuke Kawata +2 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag1162
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• Optimized hdbscan clustering for reconstructing the merger history of the Milky Way: applications and limitations
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag503
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• GalactiKit: reconstructing mergers from z = 0 debris using simulation-based inference in Auriga
  Andrea Sante, Daisuke Kawata, Andreea S. Font +1 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1343
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• The star-crossed paths of the Milky Way and Andromeda
  Nature Astronomy 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02629-0
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• Measuring and modelling the Splash with APOGEE/Gaia and ARTEMIS
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1075
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• ARTEMIS emulator: exploring the effect of cosmology and galaxy formation physics on Milky Way-mass haloes and their satellites
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1378
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• Applying machine learning to Galactic Archaeology: how well can we recover the origin of stars in Milky Way-like galaxies?
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1398
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• Differences in the properties of disrupted and surviving satellites of Milky-Way-mass galaxies in relation to their host accretion histories
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae878
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• Taking the Milky Way for a spin: disc formation in the artemis simulations
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3369
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• The FLAMINGO project: revisiting the S8 tension and the role of baryonic physics
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3107
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• SP(k) – a hydrodynamical simulation-based model for the impact of baryon physics on the non-linear matter power spectrum
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1474
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• A correlation between accreted stellar kinematics and dark-matter halo spin in the artemis simulations
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slac158
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• GOGREEN: a critical assessment of environmental trends in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations at z ≈ 1
  Egidijus Kukstas, Michael L. Balogh, Ian G. McCarthy

  +28 more

  • Yannick M Bahé
  • G. De Lucia
  • P. Jablonka
  • Benedetta Vulcani
  • Devontae C. Baxter
  • +23 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3438
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• High-resolution synthetic UV-submm images for Milky Way-mass simulated galaxies from the ARTEMIS project
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2022 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac719
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• Towards a universal model for the density profiles of dark matter haloes
  2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3394
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• Merger-induced galaxy transformations in the ARTEMIS simulations
  2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1038
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• Testing extensions to LCDM on small scales with forthcoming cosmic shear surveys
  2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2787
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• The BAHAMAS project: Evaluating the accuracy of the halo model in predicting the non-linear matter power spectrum
  2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2834
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• Quenching of satellite galaxies of Milky Way analogues: reconciling theory and observations
  2021 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac183
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• Stumbling in the dark: the search for the Universe's missing mass
  Journal of the British Astronomical Association 2021
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