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Resolving the building blocks of galaxies in space and time

by Bart Clauwens

This page shows the content of my PhD thesis at Leiden University. The defence is 6 December 2017, 13:45 at the Academiegebouw in Leiden.

Complete thesis:       Thesis

Link to papers corresponding to the scientific chapters:
Chapter 2:       An assessment of the evidence from ATLAS-3D for a variable initial mass function
Chapter 3:       Implications of a variable IMF for the interpretation of observations of galaxy populations
Chapter 4:       A large difference in the progenitor masses of active and passive galaxies in the EAGLE simulation
Chapter 5:       The average structural evolution of massive galaxies can be reliably estimated using cumulative galaxy number densities
Chapter 6:       The three phases of galaxy formation

Link to a video of my colloquium, held on 16 Nov 2017 (the talk starts at minute 17):       Colloquium video
E-mail	:	clauwens@strw.leidenuniv.nl
		

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