Alfredo Carpineti

My Work:

I am a third year postgraduate student and I am currently studying galaxies from the GalaxyZoo Mergers Catalogue (http://www.galaxyzoo.org/). My project focus on spheroidal post-mergers at low redshift, and the reason to study these galaxies is to understand better what role mergers play in the formation and evolution of Early-type galaxies. I've also recently started a project on the infrared and radio properties of the general galaxy merger population. 

Talks & Publications

NAM 2010, Glasgow  - The properties of bulge-dominated postmergers in the local Universe 

AAS218, Boston - Spheroidal Post-mergers in the local universe. (PM - Talk.pdf)

ESAC Workshop, 2011, Villanueva de la Canada - The starburst-AGN connection in mergers and post-mergers 

Published a paper in MNRAS - Spheroidal Post-mergers in the local universe.

AAS219, Austin TX - The properties of IRAS-detected mergers in the local universe. 

Workshops & Schools

2010:

Bayesian Statistics applications to Astrophysics - AstroImperial internal workshop

2011:

The starburst-AGN connection under the Multiwavelength Limelight - ESAC

Photometric Redshift: Problems and solutions - AstroImperial internal workshop

Outreach

Blog post on Spheroidal Post-Merger: http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/2011/11/29/galaxy-crash-debris-post-merger-spherodials-paper-now-out/

Blog post on IRAS merger: http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/2012/01/02/seeing-mergers-in-a-different-light/

Background:

I have a Master of Science (MSc) from Imperial College in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces.

I have a Bachelor of Science(BSc) from Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza in Physics and Astrophysics