Sorya Lambert

Estudiante de Doctorado

I am a PhD student at IEA, working with Professor Evelyn Johnston. My research revolves around the formation and evolution of galaxies. The heart of my thesis is to explore a new way of understanding how galaxies grow and evolve. In biology, phylogenetic trees trace evolutionary pathways, showing how species diverge and inherit traits over time. I will adapt this concept to galaxies, using integral-field spectroscopy to build ‘family trees’ of their stellar populations. Bringing stellar phylogenies into astronomy opens a new way to understand how generations of stars inherit, enrich, and shape the galaxies they live in. This perspective adds a fun interdisciplinary twist to galaxy evolution: galaxies aren’t just collections of stars; they’re living histories!

Proyectos

Stellar populations and kinematics of NGC 1365: I have been working to demonstrate the unique capabilities of the Local Volume Mapper (LVM), with the long-term goal of developing phylogenetic trees for unresolved stellar populations. My current project uses LVM observations of NGC 1365, a spiral galaxy in the Fornax Cluster, to produce maps of stellar and gas kinematics and stellar-population diagnostics (age and metallicity), from the nucleus to the outskirts.
We aim to demonstrate that LVM’s wide field-of-view can deliver reliable nucleus-to-outskirts measurements, without mosaicking. Benchmarking and validating a robust analysis pipeline will allow it to be applied to other local volume galaxies in the future.

Puntos destacados

Soy miembro de la colaboración SDSS-V LVM.

Actividades extracurriculares

Me encanta pasar tiempo en la naturaleza y hacer senderismo en las montañas. Pero, sobre todo, viajar y conocer nuevos países y culturas es una de mis principales pasiones. Cuando no estoy al aire libre, las manualidades (DIY) ocupan la mayor parte de mi tiempo libre.

Contácteme

sorya.lambert [at] mail.udp.cl