I am an astrophysicist and pursue research aimed at searching for the first generation of galaxies and understanding their properties and evolution over cosmic time. To achieve these goals, I started by investigating the structures and properties of nearby galaxies in recent times. This will allow us to compare galaxies in recent times with distant galaxies in early times, and thus provide clues and constraints to understand the growth and evolution of the first generation of galaxies.

I have been focused on understanding the formation, evolution and dynamics of nearby ring galaxies and barred galaxies by means of N-body simulations and ALMA observations. These two types of galaxies are the best laboratories to investigate the two most important processes that affect the fate of galaxies: external and internal processes. The external processes are relative to the environment of a galaxy, such as galaxy collisions. On the other hand, the internal processes refer to processes within a galaxy, such as effects of galactic bars. 

I am currently leading a pilot survey to systematically observe double-barred galaxies using the ALMA telescope. With this project, we aim to gain more knowledge on the molecular gas in double-barred galaxies and advance our understanding on how bars affect gas dynamics on different scales in galaxies. Further details about my observation and simulation work can be found on the Observations and Simulations pages.