RG
Robert Grand
Liverpool John Moores University, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, University College London, University of Leeds, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Astronomy and Astrophysics · Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena · Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies · Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
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Employment
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Liverpool John Moores University Ernest Rutherford Fellow2023 - Present
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Severo Ochoa Advanced Fellow2021 - 2023
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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Independent Research Fellow2018 - 2021
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Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies Postdoctoral Researcher2014 - 2018
Education
- 2010 - 2014
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University of Leeds Master of Physics and Bachelor of Science, Class 1 with honours2006 - 2010
Projects & Funding
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GalaHAD: Galaxy Formation With High Accuracy Dynamics Science and Technology Facilities Council2023 - 2028
Publications (181)
- Coupling between stellar and HI lopsidedness in Milky Way–type galaxies from the Auriga Superstars cosmological simulations Save
- Uncovering the origin of complex velocity distributions in edge-on disc galaxies Save
- Introducing AuriGLOBES: The effects of compressive tides, compact object-induced mass loss, and size evolution on modelling globular clusters Save
- A simulation-based inference of the Milky Way merger history Save
- Age and metallicity of low-mass galaxies: From their centres to their stellar halos Save
- Stirring things up: Bar-induced substructures in the stellar halo of a cosmological Milky Way analogue Save
- The diverse nature of spiral arms in the auriga Superstars cosmological hydrodynamic simulations Save
- What drives bar rotation? The effect of internal properties and galaxy interactions on bar pattern speeds Save
- From order to chaos: the blurred out metallicity gradient of the Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage progenitor Save
- Auriga Streams III: the mass–metallicity relation does not rule out tidal mass-loss in Local Group satellites Save
- Chronology of our Galaxy from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting (ChronoGal) Save
- Milky Way disk Save
- The Milky Way in context: the formation of galactic discs and chemical sequences from a cosmological perspective Save
- How well can we unravel the accreted constituents of the Milky Way stellar halo?: A test on cosmological hydrodynamical simulations Save
- Stream automatic detection with convolutional neural networks Save
- Auriga Superstars: Improving the resolution and fidelity of stellar dynamics in cosmological galaxy simulations Save
- Thick-to-thin disc transition and gas disc shrinking induced by the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger Save
- Quantifying the intrinsic variability due to randomness of the Auriga galaxy formation model Save
- The halo mass dependence of physical and observable properties in the circumgalactic medium at z = 0 Save
- Auriga Streams III: the mass-metallicity relation does not rule out tidal mass loss in Local Group satellites Save