Ricardo Munoz

Postdoctoral Asscociate

Research Interests

I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Astronomy Department at Yale University.
My current interests are focused primarily on the evolution of dwarf
galaxies (particularly dwarf spheroidal galaxies) and their
interactions with our Milky Way. My work involves observational and
computational (N-body simulations) studies of theses systems aimed at
understanding the role that Galactic tides play in shaping their
properties. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are the faintest and possibly
the darkest (most dark-matter dominated) kind of galaxies in the
universe. Besides being interesting systems in their own right, they
provide us with significant constraints on current cosmological models
and can potentially teach us something about the nature of dark
matter.