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DR MARK WILKINSON

 

 

Dr Mark Wilkinson

Position: Royal Society University Research Fellow

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH

E-mail: mark.wilkinson@astro.le.ac.uk

Telephone: +44(0) 116 252 3572
Fax: +44(0) 116 223 1283
   

Research Interests

Galactic Dynamics: internal dynamics of dwarf galaxies; dark matter  haloes of galaxies; mass estimators; dynamical modelling of the Milky Way; dynamics of globular cluster systems.

Modelling large Galactic data sets: AAOmega survey of the Milky Way bulge/bar; RAVE; SDSS-SEGUE; the Gaia mission.

Stellar Dynamics in star clusters: N-body simulations of star clusters; tidal disruption of star clusters; direct confrontation of observations and simulations.



 

 

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