Guest Speaker - Dr Anshu Gupta – UNSW
2020-09-03 19:30 - 21:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom Meeting - members will be invited
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Journey of Metals through the Cosmic Web

In her presentation Dr Anshu Gupta will focus on how galaxies evolve in conjunction with their chemical evolution.

Her main focus is to understand how the local environment shapes galaxies as we see them today, from clouds of gas to galaxies like our Milky Way. She combines observations from the largest ground based telescopes with the state-of-the-art cosmological simulations to estimate if galaxies living in dense galaxy clusters produce metals faster than galaxies living in isolation.

Dr Anshu Gupta

is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She completed her dual bachelor undergraduate and Master of Science degrees in May 2013 at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India. Her thesis is titled: 3He [II] - An alternative probe for Reionization.

She did her graduate studies/PhD (2018) at Australian National University (ANU), Canberra with Prof Lisa Kewley and Dr Tiantian Yuan. Her thesis is titled: Chemical evolution of star-forming galaxies in the overdense environment.

Research Interests

"I am interested in understanding the origin and evolution of galaxies like our own Milky Way. My primary research focus is in figuring out how galaxies build different elements. I use optical and near-infrared spectroscopic observations of galaxies, to understand the evolution of kinematic, chemical and other inter-stellar medium properties of galaxies over the past 12 billion years.

In my work, I try to establishes a direct connection between observations and, the state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations and theoretical models, which is essential to fully understand the physics of galaxy formation and evolution."
