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Jo Bovy's research focuses on understanding the structure formation of galaxies, particularly the Milky Way. He employs data from large surveys to investigate the distribution of stars in the Milky Way, which depends on age and chemical composition, enabling the identification of the fundamental processes that govern the formation and evolution of the Milky Way disk and other galaxies. His work particularly emphasizes the application of observed kinematics of stars to infer the mass distribution—including dark matter—within the Galaxy. He is an active member of the APOGEE survey, which utilizes high-resolution, high signal-to-noise infrared spectroscopy to explore the structure of the bulge and disk regions of the Milky Way, contributing to the fields of stellar and galactic astrophysics.
Department of Sociology