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I'm Simone Callegari, and I'm working for my Ph.D. in
Astrophysics with prof. Lucio
Mayer at the Institute for
Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich. A couple of days per
week you can find me at the ETH Hoenggerberg campus, where I'm kindly
hosted by the Extragalactic
Astrophysics group there.
I'm working, among other things, on N-body/SPH simulations of minor
mergers of galaxies, especially in relation to the pairing and growth
of the supermassive black
holes (see also here)
that might be present in their bulges, and of the cosmological
formation of bulgeless disk galaxies. I am also doing research on the
scaling relations of disks, AGN activity and its connection to
dynamical triggers, and the origin and dynamics of globular clusters
in the context of hierarchical galaxy evolution.
I got my Master degree in Astrophysics and Space Physics at the
University of Milano-Bicocca under the supervision of prof. Monica
Colpi, working on tidal effects during interactions between
galaxies with a high mass ratio.