Biography

Mark Gieles received his PhD degree at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2006 under the supervision of Henny Lamers and Simon Portegies Zwart. He then moved to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile as a research fellow and support astronomer on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal in the Atacama dessert. As part of this fellowship he spent 3 months as a visiting scientist at the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh to work with Douglas Heggie. In 2009 he obtained a University Research Fellowship (URF) of the Royal Society which he took up at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge. In January 2013 he started as the first chair in astrophysics in the Department of Physics of the University of Surrey.

Research Interests

1. Stellar dynamics

2. The gravitational N-body problem

3. Milky Way formation and evolution

Publications

My publications in refereed journals can be found here.