Gagandeep Anand

Team Member Profile: Gagandeep Anand

Current position: Graduate Student, University of Hawaii

General Science Interest: I am primarily interested in nearby galaxies, the distance ladder, and large-scale structure. Specifically, I use imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope to study resolved extragalactic stellar populations and measure accurate distances to galaxies using their brightest red giant stars.

PHANGS Work: I am using parallel imaging from the PHANGS-HST survey to derive accurate tip of the red giant branch distances to individual galaxies. I also help compile and update literature distances for the larger PHANGS sample.