Research Overview
This page contains links to some of my various areas of research interests and projects, both completed and ongoing. It is not exhaustive, and for links specifically to my papers see the Publications tab.
Revealing the global structure, dynamics and formation history of our Galaxy is a great challenge owing to our position within it, and complicated observational selection effects such as the dust extinction. For example, the Milky Way is known to be a barred spiral Galaxy, but there remains significant disagreement on how those spiral arms form and evolve, and on the length and composition of the bar. The distribution of dark matter in and around the stellar disc is also very difficult to measure directly, and yet it plays a vital role in the gravitational potential of the Galaxy. Despite this, the Milky Way is a unique laboratory for studying galactic dynamics and evolution, which are also relevant for the evolution of external galaxies, and the wider universe.
