Sandor Kruk - Personal Profiles
Sandor Kruk
Research Fellow
Main Research Fields
My scientific interests lie in the formation and evolution of galaxies through cosmic time and my research is focused on measuring the morphology of galaxies and the exploration of large datasets. I use crowdsourcing projects such as Galaxy Zoo to visually classify galaxies and identify features such as bars, bulges or spiral arms, as well as quantitative measures such as bulge-bar-disc decompositions in multi-wavelength data. I am interested in the dynamical processes that lead to the formation of galaxy structure, and their subsequent role in shaping galaxies. With the upcoming ESA Euclid mission, I plan to measure these structures and study their redshift evolution.
I am also interested in mining data archives, such as the ESA science archives, using citizen science and machine learning, being the PI of the Hubble Asteroid Hunter (www.asteroidhunter.org), a citizen science project asking members of the public to identify asteroids in the Hubble archives. Check out these articles: Foreground asteroid passing the Crab Nebula and Galaxies – with a chance of asteroids.
Keywords
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- Galaxy morphology
- Citizen science
- Multi-wavelength astronomical surveys
- Legacy science
- Data mining
Ongoing collaborations
- Galaxy Zoo Collaboration (crowdsourced astronomy project)
- Zooniverse Collaboration (largest and most successful citizen science platform)
- Euclid - Galaxy Morphology Working Group
- SDSS-IV (MaNGA IFU survey)
- Victor Debattista, Cristina Popescu (UCLan, UK), Peter Erwin (MPE, Germany), James Trayford (Leiden Observatory, Netherlands), Rene Laureijs (ESTEC, Netherlands)
Publications
Project/mission at ESA
EUCLID