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