Victor P. Debattista
Galaxy Dynamics Group Professor of Astrophysics
Jeremiah Horrocks Institute
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, UK PR1 2HE
Telephone: +44 (0)177 289 3568
Fax: +44 (0)177 289 2996
Email: vpdebattista@gmail.com

Teaches modules around the Milky Way and galaxies in general. His research expertise is in the dynamics of galaxies and how this informs their formation and evolution. He uses high performance computer simulations to help understand their behaviour. His research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Royal Society and the EU COST Association.

Part-time PhD research student, his main research interest is in galaxy bars and boxy/peanut bulges, and how N-body+SPH simulations can help us understand their formation and evolution.

PhD research student, his main research interest is in the Milky Way's bulge using data from the MOONS REDWAY survey.

Part-time Masters research student, investigating profiling of galactic bars in simulations and observations. He is fascinated by the processes involved in organising significant proportions of a galaxy’s stellar mass into a rotating bar.

In 2016 joined the University of Malta as lecturer in the Department of Physics and the Institute of Space Sciences & Astronomy (ISSA), teaching Nuclear Physics and Astronomy & Cosmology His main research revolves around observational cosmology, particularly the early universe and reionisation, galaxy formation & evolution, and galactic dynamics.

Completed his PhD at the Universidade de São Paulo and worked as a postdoc with Victor Debattista at UCLan. His interests are in theoretical Galactic Dynamics, from the relaxation of collisionless gravitational systems to formation and evolution scenarios for the Milky Way. Currently a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan and member of the DESI collaboration.

Finished his PhD at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory under the supervision of Dr. Martin C. Smith. Studied the properties of the Milky Way stellar halo in the Solar Neighborhood using Gaia and LAMOST data. Currently a Visiting Fellow at UCLan and external member of the Galaxy Dynamics Group. Investigating the effects of single mergers in disc-shaped galaxies with N-body + SPH simulations.

Finished his PhD at UCLan under the supervision of Prof Victor P. Debattista as part of the Galaxy Dynamics Research Group. Wrote dissertation and is continuing to study the effects of S-shape warps on the vertical structure of galactic discs. Specialises in Gaia data and N-body+SPH simulations with upcoming Python processing library .

Former PhD research student. Primarily interested is studying the formation of Box/Peanut bulges in barred-galaxies by comparing isolated and cosmological simulations to observations of both external galaxies and the Milky Way.

Masters by Research (MRes) student studying the kinematics of stars in the bulge of the Milky Way, and in the bulge of a high-resolution simulation of a barred spiral galaxy. Research is focused on comparing the results to understand the formation of our Galaxy's bulge.