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Jesse van de Sande is a Lecturer in Astrophysics at the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales. His research interests focus on understanding the Milky Way and massive galaxies: how they form, evolve, and eventually die. He has expertise in utilizing integral field near-infrared spectroscopic data to determine the stellar kinematic properties of galaxies. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator leading GECKOS, a large survey using VLT/MUSE that studies 35 edge-on galaxies with masses similar to that of the Milky Way, aiming for deeper, larger radius, and higher spatial resolution observations. Additionally, he is involved with the SAMI and Hector Galaxy Surveys, leading stellar kinematic working groups and investigating the dynamics of intermediate to high-redshift galaxies using various observational techniques. Jesse obtained his PhD from the Leiden Observatory, Leiden University in 2014, with a dissertation titled "Dawn Red Dead: Stellar Kinematics of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z=2". Following his doctorate, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy from 2015 to 2020. In 2020, he was awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship before joining UNSW.
University of New South Wales • Sydney, Australia
Lecturer in Astrophysics at the School of Physics.
Sydney Institute for Astronomy • Sydney, Australia
Conducted research on stellar kinematics and massive galaxies.
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