The general picture of galaxy formation and evolution includes bars as the main drivers of the internal secular processes affecting the lifetime of disc...
From the blue cloud to the red sequence (and over the green valley): investigating the evolution of galaxies over cosmological timescales
In the local universe, galaxies fall into one of two populations: a star-forming blue cloud and a red sequence lacking star formation. At redshift z ~ 1.5...
Galactic Globular Clusters: Why should we care about them?
Galactic globular clusters have always been at the crossroad of several investigations in both Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics. For long time, they have been...
I will talk about how resolved stellar populations in the nearby Local Group dwarf galaxies have been used to study the detailed chemical, kinematic and star...
It has been thirty years since the seminal work of Alan Dressler on the density-morphology relation, which established environment as a driving mechanism for...
IAU G5 -- The GALAH survey: science goals and highlights to date
The field of Galactic archaeology has been very active in recent years, with a major influx of data from the Gaia satellite and large spectroscopic surveys. The...
2D-FIS, a bundle of 125 optical fibres mounted in the focal plane of the WHT, has been used to study two-dimensional stellar kinematics and populations in...
Kinematics and stellar population gradients as fingerprints of past mergers in elliptical galaxies
The formation and evolution of early-type galaxies constitutes a long-standing and crucial problem in cosmology. In all hierarchical clustering models within a...