Head of the group
Dr. Michael Beasley
e-mail: beasley@iac.es
Website: https://www.mikebeasley.org/
Research interests: Globular cluster systems, development of stellar population models, formation and evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies
Collaborations: MILES, J-PLUS, J-PAS, SAGES
Staff members
Dr. Marc Balcells
e-mail: balcells@iac.es
Website: http://www.ing.iac.es/~balcells/
Research interests: numerical simulations of massive galaxies
Collaborations: Coma Cluster Treasury Survey, EMIR, GOYA, WEAVE
Dr. Arianna Di Cintio (Marie-Curie Fellow)
e-mail: adicintio@iac.es
Website: http://www.aip.de/Members/adicintio
Research interests: Galaxy formation, Cosmological simulations, Baryonic physics within galaxies, DM models, Mass distribution in galaxies, Dwarf galaxies, Local Group
Collaborations: CLUES, NIHAO
Dr. Jesús Falcón-Barroso (former head of the group, 2013-2015)
e-mail: jfalcon@iac.es
Research interests: development of stellar population models, unraveling the nature of bars and bulges, formation and evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies
Collaborations: ATLAS3D, CALIFA, DAGAL, MILES, SAURON, SMAKCED, WEAVE, XSL
Dr. Ana Elia García Pérez
e-mail:agp@iac.es
Research interests: Large Surveys, Milky Way evolution, Stellar Spectroscopy
Collaborations: SDSS, WEAVE, XSL
Dr. Ignacio García de La Rosa
e-mail: irosa@iac.es
Research interests: stellar populations in galaxy clusters, Hydrodynamic cosmological simulations.
Dr. Adriana de Lorenzo Cáceres
e-mail: adrianadelorenzocaceres@gmail.com
Website: adrianadelorenzocaceres.wordpress.com
Research interests: unraveling the nature of bars and bulges, formation and evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies
Collaborations: CALIFA, TIMER, SDSS-IV/MaNGA, AGN-STORM
Dr. Tomás Ruíz Lara
e-mail: tomasruizlara@gmail.com
Website: https://dusktodawn-astro.blogspot.com.es/
Research interests: Stellar population analysis in galaxies, Colour-Magnitude Diagram (CMD) techniques vs. integrated spectra analysis, radial migration and stellar populations in the outskirts of spiral galaxies.
Collaborations: CALIFA, AMUSING, WEAVE, SMASH
Dr. Ignacio Trujillo (former head of the group, 2010-2012)
e-mail: trujillo@iac.es
Research interests: evolution of massive galaxies, spectro-photometry of SDSS galaxies, outskirts of disks in nearby spirals
Collaborations: J-PAS, SHARDS
Dr. Alexandre Vazdekis (former head of the group, 2009)
e-mail: vazdekis@iac.es
Website: http://www.iac.es/galeria/vazdekis/
Research interests: development of stellar population models, analysis methods for the study of populations in galaxies, universally invariant IMF vs IGIMF theory, stellar populations in galaxy clusters, unraveling the nature of bars and bulges
Collaborations: CALIFA, DAGAL, MILES, XSL, WEAVE
PhD students
Elham Eftekhari Ardakani
e-mail: elhamea@iac.es
Advisors: Alexandre Vazdekis, Francesco La Barbera
Research interests: Analysis methods for the study of populations in galaxies
Collaborations: WEAVE
Raúl Infante Sainz
e-mail: rinfante@iac.es
Advisor: Ignacio Trujillo
Research interests: Astronomical data reduction. PSF characterization. Deep imaging: Low Surface Brightness Structures. Stellar haloes and outskirts of galaxies. Galaxy formation and evolution.
Javier Román García
e-mail: jroman@iac.es
Advisor: Ignacio Trujillo
Website: https://jromanastro.wordpress.com/
Research interests: Stripe 82
Núria Salvador Rusiñol
e-mail: nsalva@iac.es
Advisors: Alexandre Vazdekis, Michael A. Beasley
Research interests: stellar populations in galaxy clusters
Collaborations: WEAVE, J-PLUS
Daniel Walo
e-mail: dwalo@iac.es
Advisor: Jesús Falcón-Barroso
Research interests:
Former members of the group
Benjamin Roeck
e-mail: broeck@iac.es
Advisor: Alexandre Vazdekis
Research interests: development of stellar population models, unraveling the nature of bars and bulges
Collaborations: DAGAL
Ignacio Martín-Navarro
e-mail: imartin@iac.es
Advisor: Alexandre Vazdekis
Research interests: analysis methods for the study of populations in galaxies, outskirts of disks in nearby spirals
Collaborations: CALIFA
Luis Peralta de Arriba
e-mail: lperalta@iac.es
Advisors: Marc Balcells and Ignacio Trujillo
Research interests: evolution of massive galaxies
Agnieszka Ryś
e-mail: arys@iac.es
Website: http://www.astroaga.com/
Advisor: Jesús Falcón-Barroso
Research interests: formation and evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies
Collaborations: SMAKCED
Marja Seidel
e-mail: mseidel@iac.es
Website: http://www.iac.es/galeria/mseidel/
Advisor: Jesús Falcón-Barroso
Research interests: unraveling the nature of bars and bulges
Dr. Carsten Weidner
e-mail: cweidner@iac.es
Website: http://cweidner.zxq.net/
Research interests: universally invariant IMF vs IGIMF theory