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The Dynamics of Star Formation and Star Clusters

With the advent of recent large-scale radial velocity surveys and the recent launch of ESA's astrometric Gaia satellite, studies of the kinematics of young stars have become increasingly prominent over the last few years. They are the key to our understanding of both the star formation process and the formation and early evolution of star clusters, allowing us to test the results of hydrodynamic simulations of the star formation process and N-body models of the dynamical evolution of star clusters.

My research is currently focussed on studying the kinematic structure of star forming regions and star clusters to better constrain the star formation process.

If this interests you then you may be interested in this upcoming meeting we are organising on The Kinematics of Star Formation, to be held at the headquarters of the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London, on the 9th of January 2015.