Contact:
Sergey E. Koposov To studentsI am accepting new PhD students. I am also happy to chat to any PhD or undergraduate students interested in galactic archaelogy, statistics or machine learning.To postdocsIf you are looking to apply for one of the fellowships (Rutherford, Royal Society or others) and are interested in doing it in Edinburgh and work in the general area of Galactic archaeology, please check this page for a list of opportunities, and feel free to contact me to help with the application process and sponsor your application. Keep in mind that many of the applications have an internal (within Edinburgh) selection process, so please contact me in advance. On top of fellowships listed there are also Chancellor fellowship.Featured recent papersUnravelling the mass spectrum of destroyed dwarf galaxies with the metallicity distribution functionS5 : Probing the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds potentials with the 6-D map of the Orphan-Chenab stream DESI Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy: Revealing the Immigration History of our Nearest Neighbor Constraining the shape of Milky Way satellites with distance gradients S5: The Orbital and Chemical Properties of One Dozen Stellar Streams All publications:CVPDFResearch interests:
Press coverage/releases of some of work that I have been involved in
Resources:I created and support the large SQL database of all astronomical surveys called WSDB (whole sky database). If you are interested in using it, have big data/data mining ideas, please contact me. Some software I've written or have been involved in developing:
q3c
astrolibpy
sqlutilpy
pg hist
pg healpix |
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