Dr. Isabel Santos-Santos

I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational Cosmology in Durham University (UK) working with Prof Carlos Frenk. Previously, I was a postdoc in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria (Canada) working with Prof Julio Navarro. I completed my Ph.D. in Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), under the supervision of Prof Rosa Domínguez Tenreiro and Dr Chris Brook.

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My research focuses on the cosmological role played by dwarf galaxies -the least massive but most numerous type of galaxy in the Universe. I study cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxies, mainly within the standard Lambda-Cold dark matter framework, to address questions regarding the nature of dark matter as well as the formation history of our Galaxy the Milky Way, and its satellite population.

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