Juan Espejo

Alumni

Swinburne University of Technology

Biography

My PhD project is about different aspect of galaxy evolution, in particular the angular momentum and molecular gas content of star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon. I use IFU data from large telescopes such as Keck and VLT as well as complementary photometry from HST to study the kinematics and morphology of galaxies at z>1.5. I am interested in understanding the processes that drive the evolution of galaxies to the grand design spirals we see in the local Universe and how we can improve our current measurements to achieve that goal.