Head of the group
Dr. Michael Beasley
e-mail: beasley@iac.es
Research interests: development of stellar population models, formation and evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies
Collaborations: MILES
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. 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. Ignacio García de La Rosa
e-mail: irosa@iac.es
Research interests: stellar populations in galaxy clusters, spectro-photometry of SDSS galaxies
Collaborations: SPIDER
Dr. Ignacio Trujillo (former head of the group, 2010-2012)
e-mail: trujillo@iac.es
Website: http://www.iac.es/galeria/itc/
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
PhD students
María Cebrián Renau
e-mail: mcebrian@iac.es
Advisor: Ignacio Trujillo
Research interests: evolution of massive galaxies, spectro-photometry of SDSS galaxies
Collaborations: SHARDS
Javier Román García
e-mail: jroman@iac.es
Advisors: Ignacio Trujillo
Website: https://jromanastro.wordpress.com/
Research interests: Stripe 82
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