Dr. Trinidad Tapia

I worked on my own project focused on the formation and evolution of disc galaxies. The main tools that I used are numerical simulations and packages for scientific computing with Python to build a catalogue of synthetic galaxies. The comparison between the synthetic galaxies with data of real galaxies, allowed us to provide new clues on the unsolved problem of the formation of lenticular galaxies. I also conducted the acquisition of photometric data of stellar clusters with the 84-cm Telescope.

Study of the effects that mergers have onto the dynamics and kinematics of galaxies. These studies have been realized using numerical simulations. Expertise running and analising large samples of mock galaxies.

I studied the numerical heating in disc galaxies due to the accretion of a satellite galaxy by means of running and analysing numerical simulations. Also I achieved the master speciality in Instrumentation and Technology.

General formation in physics both theoretical and technical, with a strong emphasis in Mathematics and Astrophysics.