Jean Brodie
My research uses extragalactic globular clusters to study galaxy formation. The red sub-population (old and metal rich) of globular clusters traces the build up of bulges and the blue sub-popultion (old and metal poor) traces dark matter halos at early times. We use Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based wide field imaging data (e.g., from Subaru) to find the globular clusters in external galaxies and study their spatial distributions, and we follow up with moderate and high resolution spectroscopy at Keck and elsewhere to determine clusters ages, chemical element abundances and dynamics with which to compare to stellar evolutionary models, galaxy formation scenarios and cosmological simulations.
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Academic Bio
- PhD 1981 University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy and Emmanuel College
- 1980-1982 Harkness Post-doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
- 1982-1984 Chambers Research Fellow, Girton College Cambridge; SERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
- 1984-1987 Assistant Research Astronomer, UC Berkeley
- 1987- 1991 Assistant Professor/Astronomer UCSC
- 1991-1996 Associate Professor/Astronomer UCSC
- 1997- Professor/Astronomer UCSC
- Web Site
- Jean Brodie
- Grad Students
- Jacob Arnold
- Post Docs
- Aaron Romanowsky
- Recent Advisees
- Lee Spitler
- Jay Strader
- Soeren Larsen
- Mike Beasley
- Javier Cenarro
- Research Groups
- SAGES
- Contact Info
- 831-459-2987