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SIMÓN DÍAZ

GARCÍA

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics

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ABOUT

ME!

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada) and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (Tenerife, Spain), working under the supervision of Profs. Stéphane Courteau and Johan Knapen. I completed a PhD thesis in Astronomy at the University of Oulu (Finland) as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (DAGAL Innovative Training Network). I was born in Nava, Asturias (Spain) in 1987.

Current EU MC Global Fellowship - GALSIZE:

Galaxy Sizes as Tracers of Dark Matter.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 893673.

Main research interests:

Dynamics of galaxies. Dark matter. Scaling relations. Big Data. Stellar structures in disk galaxies. Interplay between bars and rings, spirals, bulges, and active galactic nuclei. Secular evolution of disk galaxies. Star formation. Link between galaxy interactions and starbursts. Computer science techniques applied to big astronomical surveys. Machine learning. Education and science outreach.

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simondiazgar@gmail.com
 

Queen's University

99 University Avenue

Kingston 

K7L 3N6. Ontario. Canada

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Vía Láctea Street

San Cristóbal de La Laguna

38205. Tenerife, Spain​​

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