A183: Dr Rebecca Davies - Galactic Outflows

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 9 a.m.

b"Dr. Rebecca Davies is an Astro3D postdoctoral researcher and has just been awarded an ARC-DECRA fellowship at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. \\n\\nRebecca researches the stuff that flows out of Galaxies AKA \\u2018Galactic Outflows\\u2019 \\u2026 and she looks across the majority of the history of the universe from right now and right back through time to less than a billion years after the Big Bang. \\n\\nRebecca uses spectroscopic data from Hubble, JWST \\u2026 the Awesome James Webb Space Telescope and the VLT, the Very Large Telescope which consists of a optical array of four 8.2 m telescopes high up in the Atacama desert in Chile.\\n\\nFrom these data, Rebecca is creating new understandings of how Galaxies evolve, filling in some of those gaps in our knowledge, and her Honours and PhD students are in multiple research groups on related quests to understand galactic evolution. \\n\\nNow, when not doing Astrophysics. Rebecca can most likely be found bike riding or playing violin \\u2026 and she's currently a violinist with the brilliant Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne."