Dr Eduardo Balbinot
PostDoctoral Research Associate
Academic and research departments
About
Biography
I am astrophysicist working with resolved stellar populations in the nearby Universe. I mainly use statistical tools to mine for faint signal in large databases coming from photometric and astrometric surveys. Ultimately I find and model dwarf galaxies and stellar streams, which have only a handful of stars among billions of contaminating ones.
I also have a variety of interests in neighbouring fields such as multiple populations in globular clusters, the structure and star formation of the LMC, open clusters, and collisional dynamics.
Areas of specialism
Globular clusters; Dwarf galaxies; Tidal streams
My qualifications
2014
PhD - Milky Way satellites in the cosmological context
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
News
In the media
2018
Rivers in the sky.
Local communities named newly discovered stellar streams for bodies of water close to home.
Co-author
Symmetry Magazine