Katherine Harborne

Affiliate

University of Western Australia

Biography

A post-doctoral researcher specialising in computational astrophysics and galaxy dynamics at the UWA node of ICRAR. Her research interests lie outside our own galaxy - in trying to understand how the diversity of galaxies that we observe around us have formed and evolved, specifically by studying their stellar kinematic signatures.  She is also keen to develop tools that allow us to more readily compare our observations and simulations. This interest extends to studying how reliable our simulations are, especially concerning velocity structure and the formation and evolution of thin galactic disks.