Dr. Andrew Battisti

Welcome!

I am a joint Research Fellow at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), University of Western Australia (UWA) and the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA), Australian National University (ANU).

My research focuses on improving our knowledge of how galaxies, and their constituent parts (e.g., stars, gas, dust), evolve from the early Universe into the diverse population that exists today. In particular, I am interested in improving our understanding of how interstellar dust impacts observations of galaxies and also expanding various aspects of the spectral modeling code MAGPHYS. I am co-PI of the UVESS (Ultraviolet Extinction Sky Survey) SmallSat mission concept. I am actively involved with several large galaxy surveys:

• TYPHOON, a large program of 44 nearby galaxies (z~0) using the 2.5m du Pont Telescope

• MAGPI, a large program of ~200 galaxies at intermediate distances (z~0.3; 3-4 billion years ago) using the MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope 

• PASSAGE, a large pure parallel program of very distant galaxies (z>1; >8 billion years ago) using the NIRISS instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope

• POPPIES, a large pure parallel program of very distant galaxies (z>3; >11 billion years ago) using the NIRCam instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope

• CLUTCH, a multi-cycle treasury program of intermediate and very distant galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope

I am also co-Principal Investigator of the UV spectroscopic SmallSat mission concept called UVESS. 

NGC2841 Image credit: Hubble, Subaru; Composition & Copyright: Roberto Colombari.   APOD link