Andrei Ristea

PhD Student

University of Western Australia

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student working with A/Prof. Luca Cortese and Dr. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie. My research focus is in the field of extragalactic Astronomy. I study the kinematics of stars and gas in galaxies from the Nearby Universe using Integral-Field Spectroscopic (IFS) data from the SAMI and MaNGA surveys. I am particularly interested in the differences between the rotation of stars and gas as a probe of the processes that shape galaxies throughout their evolution. My first PhD project focused on the kinematic misalignments between the rotation of stars and gas in the SAMI Galaxy Survey.