Team

Principal Investigator:

• Atefeh Javadi, Sharif University; IPM

Atefeh Javadi is the Principal Investigator of the INT project. She is an Assistant Professor at Sharif University of Technology. She also leads analysis of the multi-epoch images of M33 with UKIRT in order to provide the first integrated, as well as spatially- and temporally-resolved picture of the evolution of a spiral galaxy. She has extensive experience in interpreting observations of AGB stars in the Local Group with an expertise in stellar mass-loss, dust production, SED fitting, period determination and a link between SFH and evolved stellar population. Her main scientific interests include formation and evolution of nearby galaxies, stellar evolution, dust production, stellar populations, star formation and quenching, stellar feedback, chemical enrichment of galaxies, Optical to mid-IR imaging, Interstellar Medium and Diffuse Interstellar Bands. The INT data offers unprecedented opportunities in all these areas. She is part of the supervisory team of the Iranian MSc and PhD students working within the project. She has assumed a leading role in the scientific conduct and overall project management.

http://physics.sharif.ir/~web/atefeh-javadi/

email: atefeh(at))ipm.ir

Co-Investigator:

• Elham Saremi, IPM

Elham Saremi is the leader of Andromeda satellites studies as a part of INT survey project. She is a Post-Doctoral Associate at IPM in Iran. Her main scientific interests are galaxy evolution studies and observational techniques. She uses the INT data to study the star formation history in the dwarf galaxies of LG and also, the process of mass loss returns by the evolved stellar population to the interstellar medium. She also is a member of Iranian National Observatory Lens Array (INOLA) project with studying the low surface brightness objects.

email: saremi(at)ipm.ir


• Habib Khosroshahi, IPM

Prof. Habib Khosroshahi currently works at the School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM). Habib does research in Cosmology, Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is involved in a number of projects, including studies of fossil galaxy groups, Diffuse interstellar band, star formation in local galaxies and leads the Iranian National Observatory project.




http://astro.ipm.ac.ir/~khosroshahi/Welcome.html

email: habib(at)ipm.ir


• Jacco Th van Loon, Keele University

Jacco van Loon works at Keele University in the UK. They study the mass loss from dying stars, the physics of the interstellar medium and the formation of new stars, in the context of galaxy structure and evolution. Their observational studies concentrate on optical-infrared-radio surveys of nearby and distant galaxies and active galactic nuclei. They initiated the M33 infrared monitoring project and played a prominent role in the inception of the INT monitoring project. They have a keen interest in philosophy, public engagement, and equality, diversity and inclusion.

https://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/~jacco

email: j.t.van.loon(at)keele.ac.uk


• Iain McDonald, Manchester University

Iain McDonald is a lecturer at the Open University and research fellow at the University of Manchester. He works on a broad range of subjects, including mass loss from AGB and RGB stars, late-stage stellar evolution, fundamental stellar parameters and extra-solar planets. He is involved in a number of surveys of evolved stars in dwarf galaxies (e.g. DUSTiNGS) and the Milky Way (e.g. NESS, ATOMIUM), which have strong synergies with this INT monitoring survey, allowing us to put the project in the wider context of the contributions of evolved stars to both the very local and much wider Universe.

email: Iain.Mcdonald-2(at)manchester.ac.uk


• Mahtab Gholami, IPM

Mahtab Gholami is a researcher at the school of Astronomy, IPM. She is working at the ongoing project of INT at IPM from 2018 which is subjected on the study of star formation history and chemical enrichments of dwarf galaxies in Local Group. Her research is study of star formation history of IC 10 dwarf irregular galaxy at this ongoing project. Her research interests are in the area of star formation history for galaxies, Binary stars, AGB stars, chemical enrichment of ISM, and molecular spectroscopy in ISM.

email: mhtab.gholami(at)gmail.com


• Hamidreza Mahani, IPM

Hamidreza Mahani is an IPM Post-Doctoral Associate. His primary scientific focus is on using observational techniques to study galaxy formation and evolution. He employs primary data to explore the star formation history and the process of mass returns by evolved stars to the interstellar medium. He also has studied the evolution of the Milky Way and the origin of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies utilizing his expertise in stellar population synthesis techniques and environment-dependent initial mass function theories.

email:mahani(at)ipm.ir


• Hedieh Abdollahi, IPM

Hedieh Abdollahi is an IPM Post-Doctoral Associate. Her interests are studying the evolution of stars and galaxies, studying the intergalactic environment, and chemical enrichment of galaxies. In INT project, she is studying the Long-period variable stars, history of stellar formation , and dust of the dwarf satellites of the Andromeda Galaxy.

email:Hediehabdollahi@ipm.ir
Abdollahi.hedieh2013@gmail.com

Students:

• Seyed Azim Hashemi, Sharif University

Seyed Azim Hashemi is graduated with a master’s degree in physics from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in 2018. His research interests are stellar evolution, galaxy formation and evolution, and observational cosmology. He has worked on finding the SFHs of IC1613 and NGC5128 galaxies.

email: hashemi_seyedazim(at)alum.sharif.edu
email: hashemi.seyedazim(at)gmail.com


• Mahdieh Navabi, IPM

Mahdieh Navabi is a Research Assistant at the IPM Astronomy school in Iran. Her research is in the area of star formation histories (SFHs) in nearby galaxies; discovering a comprehensive view of Andromeda satellites is the main goal of her studies in the project. She is particularly interested in the star formation, chemical enrichment, and dynamical histories of nearby galaxies and the role that long period variable stars (LPVs) played in their SFHs. She has worked on And VII's LPVs and its SFH.

email: mahdieh.navabi(at)ipm.ir


• Shahrzad Dehghani, Alzahra University

Shahrzad Dehghani is a master’s student in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Cologne-Bonn, Germany. She graduated from Alzahra University with a master of Theoretical Physics and she finished her bachelor in Physics from Shahid Beheshti University. She is working on the "Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy" and its star formation history and chemical enrichment which is part of the comprehensive INT survey. Her research interests include galaxy formation and evolution, dust, galactic dynamics and Astrochemistry.

email: sdehgha1(at)smail.uni-koeln.de
email: shahrzad.dehghani91(at)gmail.com


• Maryam Torki, Zanjan University

Maryam Torki graduated from Zanjan University with a master of Astrophysics and is currently studying the star formation history of "Andromeda galaxy". Her research interests include Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Star Formation History, Galactic structure and Dust Production.

email: maryamtorki84(at)gmail.com


• Sima Taefi Aghdam, IPM

Sima Taefi Aghdam completed her master study at the University of Tehran in "Gravitation and Astrophysics" and finished bachelor education at the Alzahra University in "Physics." She is currently collaborating within studying the star formation history of NGC 6822 dwarf irregular galaxy and the Milky Way. Her research interests include star formation, astrochemistry, galaxy evolution, interstellar medium, and observational astrophysics in general.

email: aylin.t.aghdam(at)gmail.com email: sima.taefi(at)alumni.ut.ac.ir


• Mahshid Vafaei, Alzahra University

Mahshid Vafaeizade graduated from Alzahra University with a master of Astrophysics. She is working on the "NGC 6946 intermediate spiral galaxy" and its RSGs and SN progenitors. She is interested in galaxy formation and evolution, cosmology and dark matter.

email: mahshid.vafaei28(at)gmail.com


• Behzad Bojnordi Arbab, Sharif University

Behzad Bojnordi Arbab is graduated with a master’s degree in physics from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in 2018. His research interests are in stellar populations, computational astronomy, habitability, and astrobiology. In INT project, he is actively participating in the computation of dust productions.

email: behzadbojnordi(at)gmail.com


• Sepideh Ghaziasgar, IPM

Sepideh Ghaziasgar is a research assistant at the School of Astronomy of the IPM. She graduated in cosmology from the Isfahan University of Technology (IUT). She is currently working on the Spectral classification of dusty stellar sources using spectroscopic and multiwavelength observations through machine learning. Her research interests include machine learning applications in astronomical data, multiwavelength observational techniques and spectroscopy, galaxy formation and evolution, stellar evolution, and dust production. Sepideh is also interested in education and astronomy outreach.

email: sepide.ghaziasgar(at)gmail.com


• Tahere Parto, IPM

Tahere Parto graduated from al-Zahra university in astrophysics. She is working on the star formation history of Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy. Her research interests include galaxy formation and evolution, star formation, galactic dynamics, and computational astronomy.

email:tahereparto@gmail.com,t.parto@ipm.ir


• Mahdi Abdollahi , IPM

Mahdi Abdollahi is a PhD student at the School of Astronomy. He is working on projects in collaboration with Prof. Barry Madore's group from the University of Chicago, which employs new methods that utilize classical cepheids as a distance indicator based on the Period-Luminosity relation. He is interested in using data science and machine learning in astrophysics and astronomy, leading to high precision and time-saving. He also collaborates on other projects related to galaxy formation and evolution.

email:m.abdollahi(at)ipm.ir

Observers:

• Alireza Molaeinezhad, IAC
• James R. Bamber, Keele University
• Arash Danesh, INO
• Mojtaba Raouf, KASI
• Ghassem Gozaliasl, FINCA
• Philip Short, Royal Observatory
• Lucia Suárez-Andrés, ING
• Rosa Clavero, IAC

Former Students:

• Roya Hamedani Golshan, University of Cologne
• Sara Rezaeikhoshbakht, Chalmers
• Alireza Mortazavi, Zanjan University
• Mina Alizadeh, Zanjan University
• Fatemeh Nikzat, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Maryam Saberi, University of Oslo
• Maryam Rashidpour, Alzahra University
• Najmeh Golabatooni, Alzahra University

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