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I am a second-year PhD candidate at the School of Physics, University of New South Wales, working on extragalactic globular clusters as part of the GECKOS survey. My research uses integral field spectroscopy to trace galaxy evolution by studying globular clusters' kinematics, dynamics, and stellar populations in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies.

I completed my Master's in Gravity and Cosmology at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran, where I worked on nonlinear structure formation in cosmology using Excursion Set Theory. In addition, I completed my undergraduate studies in solid-state physics at K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.

My broader research interests lie in galaxy formation and evolution, star cluster dynamics, and the intersection between theoretical and observational astrophysics.

±Ê°ù´ÇÂá±ð³¦³Ù:ÌýCharacterising Globular Clusters around Milky Way Like Galaxies With GECKOS.

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Project description:ÌýGlobular Clusters are dense and ubiquitous, with thousands, even millions of stars formed in different cosmic times, and are great candidates for investigating their parent galaxy’s formation and evolution. Because some of them forming in the early universe, after reionization, are old enough to be like fossils for their host galaxies. In addition, the others, which may be formed in low redshifts, are younger and have more metalicities. Moreover, Globular Clusters can be found in most galaxies, including elliptical and especially spirals. For instance, our Milky Way, as a spiral galaxy, has about 160 Globular Clusters. Extensive research has been done on the Milky Way galaxy, and we know many of its properties today. We can use the information we got from our galaxy and modify them to study Milky Way-like galaxies in the local universe. On the other hand, various surveys investigate different structures in the universe. One of the newest surveys is GECKOS standing for Generalising Edge-on galaxies and their Chemical bimodalities, Kinematics, and Outflows out to Solar environments. GECKOS is a European Southern Observatory Large Program combined with MUSE using Integral Field Spectroscopy. Its catalog includes 36 nearby edge-on galaxies, like our Milky Way galaxy, that we can study the formation of galaxies’ disks. Therefore, Globular Clusters and their spectra can be identified with the point-source detection techniques from GEOKOS.